Connie Britton interviewed by Reel Women's Sherry Mills.
Connie Britton spoke at length at Saturday's meeting of Reel Women, both about her career and about the television series Friday Night Lights. Here are some of the highlights:
On Friday Night Lights:
+ No, a sixth season will not happen.
+ She got teary-eyed recently while reading the script to the final season's tenth episode which is about to go before the cameras.
+ The fifth season will wrap up a lot of loose ends.
+ Look for orginal cast members to all return for the final episodes.
+ She was hesitant to do the show after playing the coach's wife in the film version of Friday Night Lights because the film role was so small. Peter Berg promised a larger role in the TV show.
On her background:
+ She went to Dartmouth but majored in Asian Studies, not theater, and spent a semester in China. Despite her major, she starred in many of the college's theatrical productions and raised the ire of some theater majors/profs.
+ Until recently she held a small grudge for the lack of support she got at the time of her graduation. She went back to the school to give an address and put it all behind her.
+ She attended the Neighborhood Playhouse after being rejected by other theater programs.
+ Her big break came in Edward Burns' low-budget The Brothers McMullen. She was visiting her sister in Washington D.C, and almost didn't show up for the NYC audition. The film was shot in the cast and crew's spare time and thus has a lot of continuity problems. Burns met Robert Redford on an elevator and handed him a tape of the completed film. It went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at Redford's Sundance Film Festival.
+ She is single, dating an L.A. writer and has two rescued dogs, one from Austin.
More in my Dallas Morning News column this coming Friday.
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