You know him from The Shield, The Commish, Winning Time, Fantastic Four and countless other TV & film projects. He has a new hit movie that just hit theaters, The Senior, where he plays Mike Flynt, a 59 year old who returns to college football to confront the past and change his future.
We also learned he has a dog named Tom Brady. Regardless of this, we still like Michael Chiklis.
Fortunately, you know, I was the captain of my football team in high school, so it wasn’t like playing linebacker was foreign to me. It’s just I hadn’t done it in 40 years, so what was foreign to me was hitting people at that age and having peanut brittle for bones. You know what I mean? It’s just, you don’t expect to do that. Like if you told me before I got this movie that I was gonna go on a football field and play tackle football with 23 and 24 year olds, I would have said, “Put down the pipe!”
– Michael Chiklis on portraying a 59 year-old college football player in “The Senior.”
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