‘The Terminal List’ Star, Taylor Kitsch, Openly Shared With The World On Live, National Television That He Once Pooped His Pants Right Before An Audition

One of these secrets shared on live television is not like the others.

There’s nothing like telling a story to the whole world that you probably could have kept to yourself. Whether it be intentional or accidental, actor Taylor Kitsch stole the show this morning on the third hour of TODAY. And it’s because he was willing to share more than any of his The Terminal List: Dark Wolf co-stars.

Kitsch has been in plenty of recognizable movies and TV shows, including but not limited to John Carter, Lone Survivor, American Primeval, and Friday Night Lights. If you are in need of a refresher, Taylor played running back Tim Riggins in the iconic series.

The 44-year-old Canadian actor has made a living playing tough guy, military types throughout his career. That’s what he does best, and that’s who he plays in the The Terminal List: Dark Wolf. In fact, this new show is a prequel series to the original The Terminal List, and focuses in on Kitsch’s character, Ben Edwards.

He and his co-stars – Chris Pratt, Tom Hopper and Luke Hemsworth – were on morning television promoting their new show when things really got off the rails. During the third hour of TODAY, Jenna Bush Hager broke out a fun game called “Secrets,” where each star provided a secret, and the hosts had to guess which secret matched up with which star. Some of them had to do with zany jobs they had before their acting careers took off, like being Santa Claus. Another “secret” was that Chris Pratt could speak German.

Then there was this secret, which read:

“I had a strong coffee before my audition and had an accident in the waiting room. I threw my underwear out in the trash can of the bathroom.”

Oh my goodness.

To make a long and hilarious story shorter, Taylor Kitsch quickly owned up to that being his secret. And I absolutely love a) that he really went for it when the producer told him to provide a secret and b) talked about his accident so nonchalantly.

The action star was asked to elaborate, and he kindly did:

“I (went to) this coffee truck when we were shooting in L.A. I was in L.A. living out of my car, and I’d get all of these crazy auditions, like, four in a day, and I needed a strong coffee. I’m having it, driving to the audition, I’m sitting in the waiting room just like this, and I s**t myself. No joke.”

To be honest, I’m not sure I would have ever told a soul if that happened to me…

But here Taylor Kitsch was, sharing it with the entire world on live, national television. And he spared no details about his pants-pooping experience:

“The bathroom door is right there. I’m like, ‘Oh my God.’ I’m going in the audition room, I threw my underwear in the garbage can, came back out, and waited and did not get the job… it was a pilot for a TV show of some sort.”

Would have been a great ending if he had ended up getting the part… but it’s still very funny that Kitsch went through all of that trouble just to get rejected. I wonder if anyone involved in the auditioning process found out about the trashed underwear and that took him out of the running?

Now, Taylor Kitsch can laugh about it all. He and his co-stars were certainly doing that when he dropped the anecdote on them. When asked by Jenna Bush Hagar if he regretted telling his “secret,” the Terminal List: Dark Wolf responded with this:

“No, not at all… not yet.”

The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, is scheduled to premiere on August 27, 2025, on Prime Video:

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