Salon.com > connie britton http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Connie Britton is the 45-year-old woman you wish you were http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/connie_britton_is_the_45_year_old_woman_you_wish_you_were/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/connie_britton_is_the_45_year_old_woman_you_wish_you_were/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:12:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13201253 Connie Britton, aka "Friday Night Lights'" Tami Taylor, the woman and mother every American woman wanted to be and with hair that is the envy of all, is the subject of an intimate New York Times Magazine profile that takes five pages to explore what makes the current "Nashville" star  so awesome. After transitioning to a darker, sexier role in "American Horror Story," and now as the rising star of "Nashville," at 45, Britton's career is just now hitting its peak — a rarity in Hollywood for women — but  she's doing what she's always done. Here are some of the highlights from the profile, below:

Connie Britton is confident and relaxed

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/connie_britton_is_the_45_year_old_woman_you_wish_you_were/feed/ 7 “Nashville”: “All About Eve” goes honky-tonk http://www.salon.com/2012/10/09/nashville_connie_brittons_new_series_is_country_strong/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/09/nashville_connie_brittons_new_series_is_country_strong/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:12:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13034741 “Nashville,” ABC’s new honky-tonk drama premiering Wednesday night, stars “Friday Night Light’s” Tami Taylor in a soap opera created by the writer of “Thelma & Louise” that is equal parts “All About Eve” and “Country Strong” and features songs from the likes of Elvis Costello and Lucinda Williams. It’s possible there exists a Mad-Libs of a show I would be predisposed to like more, but I have no idea what it could be. Happily, “Nashville,” with its unexpected intelligence and surprisingly low-key attitude, not only met all my cockamamie expectations, it exceeded them. By a resounding clamor of y'alls, “Nashville” is the most enjoyable show of the new fall season.

Connie Britton stars as Rayna Jaymes, a good-hearted country music superstar in long standing. (Think Faith Hill, but with a distaste for doing crossover singles like “This Kiss.”) A married mother of two, Jaymes' new record is a flop, and her label wants her to either go on tour with its newly minted star Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere) or junk the record. Barnes is a Taylor Swift with a bad attitude and a voracious sexual appetite (the songs that have been selected for the character actually sound like Swift’s, a nice detail), and she approaches Jaymes with all the pleasantness of a hissing cat.

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