Minka Kelly Talks ‘Friday Evening Lights’ Reboot Return

Friday Evening Lights star Minka Kelly doesn’t have plans to take part in Peacock’s reboot of the well-known soccer sequence.

Deadline first reported the streamer touchdown the reboot in December. Within the authentic present, Kelly starred as Lyla Garrity, head cheerleader for the Panthers soccer workforce. Whereas discussing her upcoming Netflix sequence Ransom Canyon, by which she stars alongside Josh Duhamel, Kelly appeared to point an unlikely return to Dillon, Texas, to reprise her position.

“I believe it’s at all times greatest leaving individuals — if even they do — wanting extra. I believe leaving that the place it was might be the correct factor to do,” Kelly instructed Deadline. “Perhaps an excessive amount of generally is an excessive amount of. I don’t know that they want extra Lyla.”

The actress additionally stated she sees a whole lot of her Ransom Canyon character in her former Friday Evening Lights position.

“I believe Quinn is perhaps Lyla 20 years later, just a little bit extra grown up,” she added. “So I’m simply gonna give attention to Quinn for now.”

Kelly starred in Friday Evening Lights from 2006, when the present premiered, till 2009. Her character Lyla started as the top cheerleader and girlfriend to star soccer participant Jason Avenue (Scott Porter), till Jason was paralyzed within the sequence premiere from a gnarly block throughout a recreation. From there, Lyla has a little bit of an existential disaster, which ultimately leads her to Taylor Kitsch’s Tim Riggins earlier than she leaves Dillon to go to school. Within the authentic sequence, that’s the final viewers actually ever see of Lyla, since she by no means strikes again to her hometown.

Ransom Canyon, the Western drama sequence that Kelly and Duhamel lead, arrives on the Netflix April 17. Primarily based on the ebook by Jodi Thomas, the present follows cussed rancher Staten Kirland (Duhamel) as he struggles with loss in addition to managing his acres of land.

Quinn O’Grady (Kelly) offers a solution to his lonesomeness as extra than simply the longtime household good friend she has been. Three main ranch households’ tales braid collectively in Ransom Canyon together with a number of different subplots corresponding to one between Lizzy Greene’s head cheerleader and Garrett Wareing’s Lucas Russell.

Davis (Eoin Macken) offers a significant rival to Staten each in land and in love. The ten-episode installment arriving Thursday additionally stars James Brolin, Marianly Tejada, Jack Schumacher, Andrew Liner and recurring solid consists of Brett Cullen, Kate Burton, Jaren Robledo, Jennifer Ens, Kenneth Miller Niko Guardado, Justin Johnson Cortez, Casey W. Johnson and Philip Winchester.