Tim McGraw and Faith Hill arrive on the Red Carpet for "The 43rd Annual CMA Awards," on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, live from the Sommet Center in Nashville on the ABC Television Network.Photographer: Jim Hagans / CMA.

The much-talked-about movie The Blind Side, in which Tim McGraw plays the husband of Sandra Bullock, finally hits theaters on Friday. Tim was at first reticent to get involved in a film that would have him play the father of a high school football player. That is, he reasoned, the same kind of role he had in the picture Friday Night Lights.

But when Tim read the script and realized how powerful the movie could become, he changed his mind. It certainly helped that he felt a kinship to his character, whose wife has the same kind of strength that Tim’s wife, Faith Hill, exerts in his real-life family.

“In our family, my wife Faith Hill is very much in control of our life,” he told Parade magazine. “She works out everybody’s schedule. I wouldn’t be able to function without her. So I can totally relate to a wife like that, and I feel that it is a blessing for me because I would be a mess without her giving me that kind of structure.”

Music remains Tim’s primary interest, though he’s taken on more acting jobs and has expressed a long-term interest in politics. Nonetheless, his biggest current career expansion is one that’s still firmly connected to his first vocation.

“My songwriting used to suck,” he conceded. “After 18 years that I’ve been touring and recording so many songs, I think I’ve gotten to a point in my life where I feel like I’ve garnered enough knowledge to sit down and write some music. I think that’s the next progression in my career, I’ve started writing more and recording more songs that I write.”

Tim kicks off the next segment of his Southern Voice Tour Feb. 11 in Omaha with Lady Antebellum and the Lost Trailers on the bill. Two months later, the Trailers’ slot in the lineup will be taken over by Love And Theft.

ShareThis