Kim Dickens Looks Back on "Friday Night Lights"

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If "Deadwood" scripts were read verbatim, then improv-encouraged "Friday Night Lights" was the opposite experience for Dickens, who played Matt Saracen’s absentee mother, Shelby.




That was an awesome experience. The scripts were beautiful to read. Your heart would just be in your throat at the end of every episode. I don’t know how they had that much power, but they did. They were so beautiful and so emotional, and then you’ll end up improvising off the scripts.

They shot it in this very unique way, which was usually three hand-held cameras, and you would just sort of improvise the scene, and the cameras would catch it, and that’s what gave it that eavesdropping or documentary style, and they could shoot so much in a day. I think we certainly would shoot, like, 10 pages in a day and wrap early.

I really loved working with Zach Gilford, and Louanne Stephens who played his grandmother — incredible actress out of Dallas. Very beautiful and very funny in person, but she’s this tremendous actress. They just had and incredible cast.

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