Connie Britton says she's OK with no 'Friday Night Lights' movie

Connie Britton portrayed Tami Taylor on the masterful drama Friday Night Lights for five seasons, and many fans hoped she would reprise her role in an FNL movie. But Peter Berg recently announced that the movie is essentially dead, and Britton said in a recent interview that she is fine with that.

Britton, who currently stars on the ABC series Nashville, told Vanity Fair that the movie had to be done exactly right or not at all.

"You know what, I actually feel like it's good," Britton said. "I think that the decision needed to be made, and there's been so much going back and forth about it now for so long. And I feel like the only way that was ever going to work is if it just fell into place beautifully, and if everybody was on board, because we couldn't do anything to risk what Friday Night Lights has already been."

Britton elaborated on that point when she said that was made the show so magnificent was that it "valued and celebrated creative freedom...The whole show worked in that balance, so the writers wrote what they wrote, and then they passed it along down to Austin, Texas, and then the actors worked in a very sort of free, spontaneous way-the camera people, the crew, everybody. And it was very unique in that way, and, I think, groundbreaking. And also, we really weren't too worried about doing things the way that everybody else did them-we sort of wanted to do it our own way, and that will always be really special to me."

It stands to reason, then, that Britton is okay with no Friday Night Lights film unless it could be done in the same way as the series.