“I need a fucking rom-com tomorrow,” Taylor Kitsch tells Empire . The actor is not one to shy away from roles that push him to the edge. The Friday Night Lights alumnus has built a career on playing men who more often than not have been through the wars, whether it’s an ill-fated Navy SEAL in Peter Berg’s tense war movie Lone Survivor , a veteran-turned-cop in True Detective Season 2 or another tormented SEAL, Ben, in Prime Video’s conspiracy-thriller series The Terminal List .

Kitsch now returns to his character for The Terminal List: Dark Wolf , a prequel spin-off that sees him take over the lead role from co-star Chris Pratt. It’s a transition that required him to go through his own personal war, during a particularly intense period which saw him go from playing a mou

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