Taylor Kitsch Admits He's Let Relationships Fall 'to the Wayside' for His Career: 'You Sacrifice a Lot' (Exclusive) 

Taylor Kitsch has a goal for 2025: “I need to have a little more life.”

In the years since he first rose to fame as beloved bad boy Tim Riggins in the show’s first season Bright Friday night In 2006, the 43-year-old actor told PEOPLE that he struggled to balance his career and personal life.

“There will never be a balance,” he admits. “But now in my 40s I’m more aware of my lack of balance than I was in my 20s and 30s.”

Over the years, Kitsch has had to move to locations around the world for months at a time to film projects (he recently shot his new Netflix western American primordial in Santa Fe, NM, and the second season of Amazon Prime Video List of terminals in Hungary). The nomadic nature of his work, he says, often allows his relationships to “fall flat.”

Taylor Kitsch in ‘Friday Night Lights’ 2006.

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“I was telling a friend of mine who’s an actor, ‘Man, I can’t get a dog yet,'” Kitsch recalls. “He said, ‘Man, I can’t even buy more than four bananas because my lack of commitment is so great.’ And it’s all a choice, and I think as you get older, you think, ‘Okay, you’ve got to find that balance because life goes so fast.'”

“The catch-22 is that I keep getting these great jobs that fulfill me,” he continues. “It makes me really happy and I love what I do. They’re very intense roles, so you have to be super short-sighted when you’re doing them, and you have to put your relationships and everything aside.”

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When choosing jobs now, Kitsch says he looks for projects that are “big risks.”

“I want to keep pushing and make sure I don’t get comfortable,” he says. “It’s so much to go to work and you sacrifice a lot, willingly, so it would be better if it were worth it. Now, it’s about the real stories and the people I work with. I’m much more comfortable with myself and who I am as a person and as an actor .”

(L to R) Shawnee Pourier as Two Moons, Taylor Kitsch as Isaac, Betty Gilpin as Sara Rowell and Preston Mota as Devin Rowell in ‘American Prime’.

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Outside of acting, Kitsch has been busy building a nature retreat on 22 acres of his land in Bozeman, Mont. She hopes to serve children, veterans and the sober living community as a “tip of the hat” to her sister, Shelby Kitsch-Best, who got sober from opioids and other drugs in the mid-2010s.

“I didn’t even know sober escapism existed until I took a crash course with my sister,” he says. “I thought, ‘Man, it sounds amazing to offer people a chance to reconnect in nature and slow things down’.”

Taylor Kitsch and his sister Shelby Kitsch.

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In his spare time, Kitsch often takes the van into the countryside to fly-fish or photograph wildlife.

“After doing work that is intense Primordialyou need breath,” he says. “There’s no better place for it.”

Next month, he will take a big step towards his 2025 goal.

“I’m going to Patagonia with two of my best friends on a two-week motorcycle ride to photograph cougars,” he says. “Those are the things I want to start doing a lot more of.”

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