Country Star Tim McGraw Joins 'Friday Night Lights'

[Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004]
Country star Tim McGraw has landed his very first movie role in Universal Pictures' Friday Night Lights. According to Variety, he will play a bullying father based on the H.G. Bissinger book about a Texas town's devotion to its high school football team.

The movie, helmed by Peter Berg, will see McGraw play Charlie Billingsley, father of a Permian High School Panthers player and a former football hero himself. Trying to vicariously relive his glory days through his son, the father puts his kid under relentless pressure to perform to his standards.

Billy Bob Thornton also stars as the head football coach.

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