It seems as if the show is dealing a little less with personal issues, and diving back into broader, more community-driven drama. Talk a little bit about the development of the third season, this shortened 13-episode run. We can’t be in our 30s and playing teenage characters. At some point we’re all going to have to grow up and do something. ![]() You seem pretty at ease with being off the show.Īt the end of the day, this is a show about high school, the nuts and bolts of it. I take it you knew this was coming for a while, then. If Smash is there, I want him to be pushing the envelope. I wouldn’t want them to just keep me on the show in some holding pattern just to keep me there. The other thing for me is I’m always thinking: ‘How do I top this?’ At a certain point, you want to leave the bar at its highest. It was something I felt real peace about. So what was your reaction when you found out you’d only be back for a few episodes this season? So if there’s a story line that came through where I was back for an episode or two, I would love to do that. But they’re going to allow him to transition. They’re not going to forget that he’s a part of this world. That’s something they’re interested in doing for sure, just kind of catching up with Smash at the end this season, or next season. So that sounds like there’s room for Smash to come back for an episode or two, if ‘Friday Night Lights’ sticks around. It’s a last-minute, walk-on tryout with Texas A&M that saves the character from what surely would have been a life in near-poverty. Humbled by a knee injury that saw Smash losing the second of his two scholarships - the first when Smash was painted as violent for striking back at a racist buffoon - Smash was hanging around the fictional town of Dillon, Texas, by doing time at a fast-food joint. In Season 3, there’s been very little flashiness surrounding the Smash character. Sometimes, these story lines are so streamlined and so commercialized that you get all the spectacle and none of the heart.’ It’s very rare that we see African American male characters in this setting, in a complete picture. ‘When we first came in and did the pilot, it would have been very easy for Smash to be a one-dimensional, cocky running back, a caricature,’ said Williams last week, an hour before he was due to report to the set of ‘Bone Deep.’ ‘But Peter Berg and Jason Katims and everyone on the creative side was adamant on making this guy three-dimensional. Through Smash, ‘Friday Night Light’ explored issues of race, mental illness, class and the hawkish practices of college recruiters. Once a self-absorbed high school junior who experimented with steroids, ‘Friday Night Lights’ producers threw the best of what they had at Smash, as he’s most often referred to on the series, over the last two and a half seasons. Gaius Charles, however, is in Los Angeles, knee-deep in filming a movie with Hayden Christensen, Paul Walker and Chris Brown.įor those with DirecTV, Charles’ Brian ‘Smash’ Williams will move on to Texas A&M Wednesday night, bringing with him some of the show’s more ambitious story lines. With a few more weeks of filming before the third season wraps, the ‘Friday Night Lights’cast is still hunkered down in Austin, Texas. Also studied in Australia at NIDA (National Institute for Dramatic Arts).This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.
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