'Friday Night Lights' star was homeless, sleeping in New York City subway before finding fame

Years earlier uncovering fame connected deed shows specified arsenic "Friday Night Lights" and "True Detective," Taylor Kitsch was down connected his luck. 

"I was virtually sleeping connected the subway," the actor, who moved from Canada to New York City to prosecute modeling and acting successful 2002, told People magazine. 

"It was a bluish bid from downtown each the mode up to 182nd and astatine nighttime they’d change, they’d instrumentality longer, A, C oregon E," helium told US Weekly successful 2017. 

Kitsch, who was lone stateless for little than a month, said things took a crook for the amended aft gathering his endowment manager. 

'FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS' STAR TAYLOR KITSCH'S MOVE TO MONTANA: 'BEING IN LA WAS NEVER A GREAT THING FOR ME'

Before helium recovered fame, Taylor Kitsch was stateless and sleeping connected a NYC subway. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

"She was like, ‘What bash you privation to do?’ I said, ‘Character pieces,'" helium told People. "She was like, 'All right, I'll instrumentality a hazard connected you.'"

"All I’ve ever wanted to bash is vanish into antithetic characters," Kitsch added. "It’s ne'er been astir starring a amusement oregon being successful the limelight oregon money."

Four years later, Kitsch landed a life-changing relation arsenic Tim Riggins connected "Friday Night Lights" successful 2006. 

"People, for immoderate crushed oregon another, conscionable truly gravitated to Riggins," helium told the outlet. "It genuinely affected my life, and each for the better."

Kitsch is champion known for his relation arsenic Tim Riggins successful "Friday Night Lights." (Arnold Jerocki/WireImage/NBC/Getty Images)

Despite his success, Kitsch – who presently stars successful the Netflix miniseries "American Primeval" – was ne'er a instrumentality of the glitz and glam of Hollywood. 

"I got a aboriginal commencement successful the business, and I was capable to person a consciousness of who I was and what I needed," Kitsch, who moved to Montana successful 2023, told The Hollywood Reporter that aforesaid year. "Being successful L.A. was ne'er a large happening for me, and I emotion being retired present – there’s conscionable truthful overmuch bid to grasp. That’s what this spot represents to me: It’s not going to lick each problem, but hopefully it volition assistance astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic enactment toward what they need."

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These days erstwhile he's not working, Kitsch – who was attracted to Bozeman, Montana, owed to his involvement successful wildlife photography – has been focused connected gathering a abstraction for the seasoned and sober/recovery communities.

Kitsch precocious opened up astir moving to Montana. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

"I’m conscionable truly excited astir this, astir it being a basal campy for radical to empower themselves," said Kitsch, whose sister battled addiction a twelvemonth prior. 

"I didn’t adjacent cognize sober escapes existed until I had the clang people with my sis," Kitsch told People. "I was like, ‘Man, it sounds unthinkable to connection radical a accidental to reconnect successful quality and dilatory things down.'"

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