Gwyneth Paltrow & Tim McGraw from the upcoming movie, Country Strong, in theaters January 7, 2011. Photo by Scott Garfield, courtesy of Sony Pictures USA & Monarch Publicity.
Ever since he appeared in the 2004 films Black Cloud and Friday Night Lights, Tim McGraw has had a fairly regular supply of roles in the movies.
The latest news in that department: He’ll appear in the spy drama Safe House, set to start shooting in South Africa, according to comingsoon.net. The movie stars Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington. Tim revealed his involvement during an interview for Country Strong, the film in which Gwyneth Paltrow plays a country star.
In that picture, set for national release Jan. 7, Tim portrays the husband/manager of Gwyneth’s character, Kelly Canter, taking the struggling singer out of rehab early in an attempt to jump-start her career before she loses her fan base.
GAC recently spoke to Tim, Gwyneth and other cast members at the red carpet premiere in Nashville. Check out our red carpet photos and exclusive interviews with all of them HERE and watch Tim’s interview below:
Because of the subject matter, Tim’s role with Country Strong went deeper than usual. Country music is, after all, a world he knows quite well.
Tim McGraw has quite a nice side career going. He’s dedicated to keeping music his top priority, yet he keeps finding his way into films, including Friday Night Lights, Four Christmases and The Blind Side, where he formed a friendship with co-star Sandra Bullock.
He’s averaged one movie a year since 2004, which is a pretty good pace for someone who tours a lot, makes albums and still spends time with his family. But the motion-picture opportunities keep coming, and Tim keeps taking the handful that actually make sense.
With his work in The Blind Side, Friday Night Lights and Four Christmases, Tim McGraw has set himself up nicely as an actor if the music thing should ever fall by the wayside.
The music is, he continues to say, his primary interest. But the acting allows him to channel the same sort of creative energy that informs an album into a completely different medium.
Tim McGraw photo by Danny Clinch, courtesy of Curb Records.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester will star in the upcoming drama, ”Love Don’t Let Me Down,” with production set to begin in January 2010 in Nashville.
The magazine says Hedlund will play ”a young rising singer-songwriter who becomes involved with a fallen country singer played by Paltrow. They embark on a career resurrection tour with her husband-manager (McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Meester). Romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.” Continue Reading
Fans who’ve seen the trailer for Tim McGraw’s next movie are likely noticing a similarity between The Blind Side and his very first motion picture, Friday Night Lights.
In both cases, Tim plays the father of a high-school football player. Tim wasn’t necessarily looking to reprise the earlier role, but The Blind Side script proved irresistible. It’s built around the life of Michael Oher, a poverty-stricken Memphis kid who was adopted by a wealthy suburban family. Michael became an All-American college player and was a first-round draft pick of the Baltimore Ravens, and that reversal of fortune kind of roped Tim in.
