Watch Zach Gilford recreate “Friday Night Lights ”meltdown with Andy Cohen
"Everybody leaves me!"
Friday Night Lights fans take "Texas forever" literally — which may be why star Zach Gilford found himself reenacting a 16-year-old scene from the NBC football drama on Thursday's episode of Watch What Happens Live.
Gilford, who's currently starring as serial killer Elias Voit on the Paramount+ drama Criminal Minds: Evolution, joined WWHL host Andy Cohen in the Clubhouse Playhouse to recreate an emotional confrontation between Matt Saracen (Gilford) and Coach Taylor (Cohen, stepping in for Kyle Chandler).
Fans will no doubt remember the moment from "Leave No One Behind" (season 2, episode 14): After Carlotta (Daniella Alonso) goes back home to Venezuela, Saracen is left to care for his grandma, Lorraine (Louanne Stephens), all by himself. The stressed out Dillon Panther gets drunk with Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch). While living it up at a strip club, Saracen gets a call saying that Lorraine hit her head while home alone — and when he arrives at the hospital to pick her up, Coach Taylor is there to meet him. Never one to hide his anger, Coach lays into his quarterback. Watch Gilford and Cohen bring the scene to (somewhat wobbly) life below.
Nearly two decades later, Gilford can still channel Saracen's sad-sack Southern charm — nor is he fazed when Cohen steps on his line. Witness how he bellows, "Shut up! Shut up! Just shut shut shut up!" And he definitely puts some extra sauce on Matt's plaintive wail, "What's wrong with me?"
Fortunately for Gilford, there are no showers in the Clubhouse Playhouse, so Cohen couldn't douse him in cold water as Coach Taylor did in the original scene, which you can watch below.
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Gilford clearly still has a lot of love for Friday Night Lights and his costars. Recently, he told Entertainment Weekly that he would "jump at the chance" to work with his Oscar-nominated buddy Jesse Plemons. "I think either one of us would love to work with the other again," he said. "We are still very close friends and I'm just so happy for him and everything that's going on. I think there's no one else who deserves it more.”
All five seasons of Friday Night Lights are streaming now on Netflix.
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