GINNY & GEORGIA INTERVIEW! Scott Porter on Season 3 and 4, Friday Night Lights, and Brianne Howey
Lightweights Podcast
Joe Vulpis
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Scott Porter is an actor known for the character Paul Rudolph in 'Ginny and Georgia' on Netflix, Jason Street in Friday Night Lights, and the show Hart of Dixie. Scott opens up about the evolution of his craft, the indsutry, voice acting, and coming inches away from being cast as Captain America in Marvel! Scott shared behind-the-scenes stories from the movie Prom Night with Brittany Snow, the challenges of each role, and how each character shaped his journey as an actor.
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| 0:00.0 | Paul, he has some serious soul searching to do, and that's really where my character's gonna exist for a lot of this season. I go back up in this fall, and we get to work on season four. We're very excited. The writer's room's been up for a while. They're making decisions on what happened. And Jason Street has a really cool head, and he's like kind of explaining what I'm seeing. This is, you know, and he starts yelling. He's like, he's like, curse! Tested for the Flash. And then I, you know, I screen tested for Captain America. And I was like, I was in that. You were in the Final Four. I was, yeah, the same amount per episode that we shot to make Friday Night Lights or Harder Dixie |
| 0:38.1 | is basically what we make Jenny and Georgia for. |
| 0:41.5 | Our first season, we set the record for most consecutive days at number one for Netflix television. |
| 0:47.2 | Can we go back to the beginning? |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.6 | Let's talk prom night. |
| 0:49.7 | Okay. |
| 0:50.1 | One of my favorite movies, because it came out right when I was graduating high school, |
| 0:58.3 | and you landed the lead pretty early into your acting career alongside Britney Snow. |
| 1:00.5 | Deep cut, man, prom night. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, it was my first hiatus off Friday Night Lights. |
| 1:09.6 | And back then, which is way different than it is now, we would work for nine or ten months on a show. |
| 1:11.8 | You do 22 episodes, and then you have three months to try and book as much movie work as you can oh so you're allowed to jump |
| 1:16.8 | to movies if they'll let you i mean if movies will let you right because back then it was like |
| 1:21.1 | you're a television actor or you're a film actor stay in your lane like that was very much the |
| 1:25.3 | landscape of hollywood and uh, dude, I, I read prom night |
| 1:31.3 | and the director called me and he was like, dude, I want to work like you guys work on Friday |
| 1:37.2 | night lights. And I was so green. All I knew was how we worked on Friday night lights, which was like |
| 1:43.8 | improvving a ton, |
| 1:45.0 | off, you know, off script, no rehearsals, no marks. And I didn't know like how to shoot traditional |
| 1:52.0 | film and television. So I loved his pitch and I liked the role of Bobby, although I die off, |
| 1:58.0 | you know, spoiler alert, everyone, die off camera, which is like, you at least |
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