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"FacebookPinterest\n\n Writer/director Steven Silver's harrowing film The Bang Bang Club\u2014the true story of four photojournalists covering the first free election in post-apartheid South Africa in 1994\u2014 graphically recreates chaotic, bloody street clashes and gives Taylor Kitsch of Friday Night Lights the chance to do more than brood. Here, Kitsch plays Kevin Carter, a junkie, bad boy photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of a starving Sudanese girl stalked by a vulture. GQ spoke to the 30-year-old actor the day after The Bang Bang Club's Tribeca Film Festival premiere.\n\n\u00B7\u00B7\u00B7\n\n This role was physically demanding\u2014you dropped 30 pounds in 60 days. What kind of toll did that take on you?\n\n I really got very myopic with it. It wasn't a healthy, smart way to do it. Psychologically, you put pressure on yourself, thinking of Carter's family and friends watching it. People will derive their opinion of who Kev was through my work, so it was heavy. It's why you really get into acting\u2014to tell a story and lose yourself in a role.\n\n Who knew Tim Riggins was a method actor!\n\n It's more my personality. There are bits of Method in it. Obviously I wasn't doing heroin in order to get into the role but I enveloped myself with the Leica camera. I literally wouldn't take it off my shoulder. I wanted to be incredibly unconscious of it when I was on screen. For the technical part of it, I shadowed a photographer in Los Angeles and took hundreds of rolls of film, just learning.\n\n Before you studied acting in New York, you played hockey in the Canadian BCHL. I'm guessing you were the only hockey prospect-turned-model in the history of the game.\n\n I was a very unsuccessful model, so I don't know what that tells you!\n\n Who did you model for?\n\n Abercrombie.\n\n You didn't do runway?\n\n No way, man. People want to tag me as a successful model, but I was literally homeless in New York. I wasn't exactly bringing in the bucks.\n\n Well, you're doing much better now. You have Battleship coming out next summer, with Peter Berg of Friday Night Lights directing. Your co-stars are Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker. How is Rihanna's acting debut?\n\n Pete's process helps any actor, especially someone who comes to the set for the first time. Rihanna was ready for anything, which helps. We had a lot of fun, and I think you get that feel in the film."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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