Besides being a successful country music star, Tim McGraw has also had some acting success in movies like The Blind Side, Friday Night Lights and Country Strong. While he is definitely interested in doing more acting projects, he doesn’t currently have anything in the works, and he’s not sure when he’ll get another project because it’s a little complicated for him to work on a movie. “It’s not like I’m like Tom Hanks and I can go pick any movie that I want and go do it,” says Tim. “A series of things that has to happen for me to be able to do a movie. First off, it has to be something I really, really like, and then they gotta want me for that part, and then it’s gotta fall into a time period that I’m able to do it. It’s hard for those three things to happen at the same time.”
Tim passed on a few acting jobs due to lack of time while making his next album, and he says, “There was one TV series that about a year or two ago we worked hard on, and it was a really good story, a book that I’d read and wanted to try to go make a series out of, and got it all to the table and done but we couldn’t get the script right. I didn’t want to do it without getting the script right, so I backed off on that.”
For now, Tim’s latest single, “I Called Mama,” is sitting in the top 15 on the charts, and he’s looking ahead to the release of his new album, Here On Earth, which comes out August 21st.
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“Not workin’ on. There’ve been a few things that I looked at that have been interesting but gosh, I’ve been so focused on making this record, I didn’t feel like I had time so, I’ve passed on just about everything. There was one TV series that about a year or two ago we worked hard on, and it was a really good story, a book that I’d read and wanted to try to go make a series out of, and got it all to the table and done but we couldn’t get the script right. I didn’t want to do it without getting the script right, so I backed off on that. For me, it’s just a matter of, gosh, having time, and especially a movie. Cause it’s not like I’m like Tom Hanks and I can go pick any movie that I want and go do it. A series of things that has to happen for me to be able to do a movie. First off, it has to be something I really, really like, and then they gotta want me for that part, and then it’s gotta fall into a time period that I’m able to do it. It’s hard for those three things to happen at the same time.”