McGRAW'S MOVIE MOMENTS
Friday Night Lights, 2004
McGraw played against type as an unlikable football dad. ''I didn't know
much about him,'' says director Peter Berg. ''His agent invited me to a
concert. I'm glad I didn't go. [When we] met, he walked into the room
with a Members Only jacket and a pair of khakis, and that was exactly
how I saw this character.''
Flicka, 2006
''I'd read the book [as] a kid, and the last thing I wanted was to be a
rancher in a movie,'' says McGraw, who usually prefers to go
cowboy-hatless on film. ''Then one day, I started reading it, and by the
end I was gushing. Faith [said]: 'What are you crying about?' My kids
couldn't see Friday Night Lights, and this was something they could see.''
The Kingdom, 2007
Costarring with Jamie Foxx, McGraw reunited with Berg for a small but
emotionally wrenching role in this upcoming drama. He plays a man whose
wife has been killed in a suicide bombing in Saudi Arabia. ''I like doing
the character parts. It's fun to completely disregard yourself and go be
somebody else.''
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