It's hard to blame him; he ended the show on a high note, winning an Emmy for his role as everyone's favorite tough-but-fair high-school football coach Eric Taylor. Chandler has since moved on from "Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose" to a successful film career with major roles in two Best Picture-nominated CIA dramas last year, Zero Dark Thirty and the ultimate winner, Argo.

His director on the latter, Ben Affleck, just signed on as Batman in WB's Man of Steel sequel, and to say there's been backlash is an understatement. Initially, Chandler did not want to comment on the recent piece of news, but when BuzzFeed suggested that it seemed like a fun casting — and that the internet, as is its wont, may have over-reacted — he chimed in a bit.

"What I hope is that he nails it and I hope he looks at everyone and says, 'Take that!'" Chandler said.

As for his current project, The Spectacular Now, the actor has a small-but-important part as the mysterious father of lost teen soul Sutter Keely (played by Miles Teller) and he turns out to be quite the disappointment once his son tracks him down.

It's a complete about-face from the stand-up Coach Taylor and Chandler admits he took the role in part because, upon first reading the script, he had no idea how he could tap into someone who is, as Chandler put it, "that much of a fuck up."

"You look at the material and say, 'Wow who the hell is this guy? And if you screw this up, Kyle, you're going to screw up their movie,'" the actor explained. "I don't know fathers like this. I have no basis to put on a father that is that delinquent, that much of a fuck up, but what I did get, when I was 14, I lost my father. He passed away. That's where I sort of delved into, because I knew the kids' loss because basically, his father was dead to him. That kid was going through his trouble. When I was 14, I went through my trouble. For two-to-three years, it was a wild ride. That, I could relate to."

Sutter is a heavy drinker for an 18-year-old high-school senior. He's a good kid with a broken compass, headed for a life adrift after he's unmoored by graduation. And Chandler knew the character well.

"Just a kid, young with no father, raised by his mom, no guidance and on his own, trying to figure out the rules of everything on his own, making all the mistakes that you make trying to figure it out," the actor remembered. "I think it's pretty clear the kid has a good heart; I think when I was a kid, I had a good sense of what I wanted to be, but I didn't have the knowledge inside of me to know who that was."