Photographed by Miller Mobley, actor Taylor Kitsch connects with Ad Week for its latest feature story. Talking about his anticipated role on HBO show True Detective, Kitsch shares, “Yeah, I’m really excited. I’ve just been prepping. It’s been almost a full year since I’ve been on camera, so I’m itching, man. I’m overdue. You’ve just got to grind it out. Even taking this year off was, I mean you want to work, but you also don’t want to just water it down and work for the sake of working. So, it was tough to sit a year out, keeping a finger crossed that I was going to get True.”
Talking about his initial struggle in Hollywood, he reveals that he was at one point living out of his car. “I was naïve, I guess. I ran out of money real quick. It’s a good story: I was homeless here in New York, and then I got my manager, who was like, “Come out to L.A.!” So, I went and worked and dug ditches in Barbados where my dad had been working. And I think I made like $4,000 or $5,000 in a couple months–like 45 days. Six-day weeks, working digging ditches. I made like 4,500 bucks or whatever, in my pocket, so I’m like, ‘Fuck, I’m good for like six months in L.A.!’ Which is pretty stupid, if you think about it. I sublet a room, and within the month, I’m done, I’m out of money, and I had this little shitbox car that was terrific. It ran basically on fumes. I think it was under ten bucks to fill it up back then. Twelve-inch wheels–it was a little hatchback. And so yeah, it was a joke. I remember I didn’t. I’m not going to tell everybody that I’m sleeping in my car at the time, but I remember over Christmastime, my manager’s like, ‘Hey, do you want to make like 100 bucks?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah.’ So, I was delivering cookies and letters, like thank you letters to casting directors. Isn’t that fucking great?” Read more at AdWeek.com.
