“A landman has the load of the world on his shoulders,” Billy Bob Thornton tells TV Insider about his Landman character Tommy Norris, who does the burdensome soiled job within the West Texas oil fields on this sequence written and government produced by Yellowstone‘s Taylor Sheridan. “He procures the land for the drilling offers, [sometimes] with loads of nefarious characters, and is on the market within the fields with the blokes.”
“Taylor wrote [the role] for me. I imply, he really stated, ‘I’ve your voice,’ as a result of we’ve labored collectively earlier than and had recognized one another slightly. I stated to him, ‘I believe it’s half my voice and half yours,’” says Thornton. “I used to be raised down there however I didn’t notice what number of kind of ex-cons and felons and stuff like this are engaged on these crews.”
Landman debuted its first two episodes on Sunday, November 17 on Paramount+, the place new episodes will air weekly. Episode 1 may even get a linear debut on Paramount Community at 9:09/8:09c on November 17 after a brand new episode of Yellowstone, with an encore broadcast at 11:28/10:28c. Thornton and extra of the Landman crew tease the drama to return within the video interview above.
“It’s an upstairs/downstairs story,” says co-creator Christian Wallace, whose podcast Boomtown impressed the sequence.“We’ve had exhibits like Dallas, that are concerning the large wigs residing within the cities and the fits. This present does have that element as a result of it’s completely part of this world, nevertheless it additionally has the grit and the grime of the roughnecks, the individuals who really extract oil out of the bottom and threat their life and limb to take action.”
Rugged, gritty Tommy retains his cool whereas working for a slick, demanding boss, oil firm proprietor Monty Miller (Jon Hamm) [married to Cami (Demi Moore)] and coping with a company lawyer Rebecca (Kayla Wallace), a shark out of water who arrives as a part of an investigation. However he additionally had to determine how you can bend the regulation underneath the understanding eye of Sheriff Walt Joeberg (Mark Collie). And let’s not neglect taking part in diplomat with the native drug sellers.
Regardless of all that, Tommy doesn’t even get to sit back in his downtime. Early within the sequence, his son Cooper (Jacob Lofland) a roughneck crew rookie, survives a tragic office accident that places him on a collision course with a younger mom, Ariana (Paulina Chávez). After which there’s Tommy’s ex-wife, glamorous disruptive Angela (Ali Larter) who’s extra mischievous bestie than mature mother to their 17-year-old daughter Ainsley (1923‘s Michelle Randolph).
“This lady is an emotional twister. She feels issues 110 p.c,” Larter tells us. “[Tommy’s] the love of her life. And whenever you’re speaking concerning the oil world, she was there within the growth and the bust and extremely darkish instances have been had for her and her household. She desires to determine how you can put her household again collectively. [She and Tommy] might be in probably the most depraved combat, do probably the most horrible issues, after which they’re in a position to snort as a result of they’ve this deeper understanding and reference to one another. I believe that was actually particular to get to play.”
Study extra concerning the newest addition to Sheridan’s Western TV universe within the full video interview above.
Landman, Sundays, Paramount+, Collection Premiere Airs, Sunday, November 17, 9:09/8:09c, Paramount Community