Tim McGraw is ready to do another TV show, even though they are a lot of hard work. The 58-year-old most recently starred in 1883, a spinoff of Yellowstone, alongside his wife, Faith Hill. With that show now a thing of the past, McGraw says he is ready to step in front of the camera again, if he can find the right role.

“1883 was the first TV series that I had done, and Faith had done,” McGraw says. “Movies are a little quicker for sure, but 1883, Faith and I both joke that it was the hardest job we’ve ever had, period, in our lives. And I grew up in a farm town working on farms and driving tractors and pulling coffee weeds out of rice fields. So I did some hard labor growing up. And we were shooting 1883 for six months, sometimes six days a week, 14 hours a day on horseback and terrible weather conditions – either burning hot or freezing cold.

“It was a lot of hard work, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything,” he adds. “But we had such a great time and it was a great experience for Faith and I together, and I would love to do another Western somewhere down the road.”

There’s not much McGraw wants to do without Hill. The father of three credits his wife of almost 29 years with changing every aspect of his life, for the better.

 

“I’ve been lucky,” McGraw tells Tracy Lawrence on his Road House podcast (via People). “I’ve been very fortunate. First off, meeting my wife saved my life. I was a wild man. I was having fun.”

“She turned my life around,” he continues. “I couldn’t have found a better woman. Not only beautiful and talented, but just a good, good person. And then having our daughters. It’s life-changing. They make you a better person, and they certainly calm the demons in you.”

Hill also helped McGraw during his recent recovery, following four grueling surgeries.

“Over the last two years, I’ve had four major surgeries,” McGraw reveals on Audacy. “So it’s been a rough go, but you know, I beat myself up over the years pretty badly.”

“I’m starting to come around,” he continues. “It’s just gonna take a little time, but I’ve done a lot of PT getting to where I can move a little better. There are setbacks. You go a couple of weeks, everything is really good, then you have a couple of weeks everything goes backwards.”

McGraw’s recovery was hard on him mentally as much as physically.

“The worst part for me is I’m terrible at sitting still,” he admits. “I had two back surgeries before the tour last year. And then during the tour, the back started going cattywampus on me. And in about three weeks in the tour, my knees went out, so I had to do the whole tour with my knee shot, my back shot. So right after I had double knee replacements. So both knees. And that was the worst, having to lay there for six, eight weeks and not do much.”

McGraw’s acting career includes hit movies like Flicka, Country Strong, The Blind Side, and The Shack, among others. He has a single at radio right now, “Paper Umbrellas” with Parker McCollum. Find the song, and all of McGraw’s music and upcoming shows at TimMcGraw.com.

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