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‘Friday Night Lights’: Aimee Teegarden Predicts Where Julie & Matt Are Today
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- Matt Saracen and Julie Taylor got engaged in the 2011 Friday Night Lights finale.
- In an interview with Swooon, Aimee Teegarden reveals where she thinks the couple is today, 15 years later.
- Teegarden also reveals why she doesn’t think Matt and Julie have had kids.
Matt Saracen (Zach Gilford) and Julie Taylor (Aimee Teegarden) went through their share of ups and downs over the course of Friday Night Lights‘ five-season run from 2006 to 2011. By the series finale, they were together, with Saracen popping the question to his high school sweetheart.
It’s been 15 years since the final episode aired (and 20 since the show premiered!), and Teegarden has some thoughts about where the onscreen couple is today.
“Julie’s living her best life somewhere,” Teegarden told Swooon at the 2026 ATX TV Festival. “Probably her and Matt are living their best life. That’s what I’m going to say.”
When it comes to whether or not Julie and Matt had kids, Teegarden admitted, “I don’t know. Probably not.” She cited the “cost of [having] kids” as a reason for why they probably opted not to.
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“I think it’s about [the] community of raising a kid,” Teegarden continued. “Whether it’s your kid or your sister’s kid or your best friend’s kid … I think child rearing has really become a different thing than it was 20 years ago.”
Teegarden reunited with several of her costars at ATX, including onscreen parents Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton, who played Coach Taylor and Tami Taylor, respectively. Adrianne Palicki, Jesse Plemons, and more were also in attendance.
It’s now been a year and a half since Peacock announced that it was developing a Friday Night Lights reboot, but no updates have been given, and showrunner and executive producer Jason Katims had nothing new to share at ATX.
The show is set to take place “in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane, when a ragtag high school football team and their damaged interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas High School State Championship. Through their unexpected rise, the football team becomes a beacon of light for their town.”
Scott Porter, who played Jason Street on the original series, told TV Insider, “Now, of course, there’s a whole new angle, and there’s the social media aspect, under a microscope at all times, but I’m just glad to hear that he said it would stay in Texas. Friday Night Lights can’t go anywhere else.”
-Reporting by Avery Thompson
