Landman’s Billy Bob Thornton and Sam Elliott Talk about Actual-Life Feelings

The second episode of Landman season 2 enters a number of the collection’ most emotional territory but.

The Landman episode, titled “Sins of the Father“, highlights the sophisticated dynamics between Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) and his father, T.L. (Sam Elliott). It additionally affords viewers a better have a look at Tommy and his son Cooper’s (Jacob Lofland) messy relationship as they try to work by their issues with one another.

Cooper remains to be heartbroken from his breakup with Ariana (Paulina Chavez), who couldn’t deal with the dangers that include his work. Making an attempt to clear his head, he joins Tommy on a visit to go to T.L. and start planning his mother’s funeral. All through the episode, Cooper discovers the complete weight of his dad’s traumatizing previous. From his father’s abuse to dropping his mom as a result of her habit, each Cooper and the viewers lastly notice how a lot Tommy has suffered.

In an interview with TV Insider, Elliott mentioned the feelings he skilled when he first learn the script. The actor praised Taylor Sheridan for having the ability to nail all these themes of regret and self-reflection.

I don’t take into consideration entering into. I don’t take into consideration, ‘I’ve obtained to be emotional right here. I’ve obtained to cry right here. I’ve obtained to do that or that.’ It simply comes out of working with nice materials that requires no matter it requires, and Taylor’s sensible at doing that. He simply writes for actors. I don’t know if it’s as a result of he’s an actor himself, or if he’s only a sensible man that understands human nature, he simply writes for us. … There’s this outdated adage, ‘If it ain’t on a web page, it ain’t on the stage,’ and it’s on each web page of Taylor’s materials that I’ve ever checked out.

Issues get much more emotional after Tommy apologizes to his son for being an absent father. The 2 make amends, and viewers lastly get to see Cooper letting his grief out and crying. Thornton revealed how this scene actually tugged at his heartstrings because it made him take into consideration his kids and his sophisticated relationship along with his personal father. He defined how he drew from his real-life experiences whereas performing out this scene, and it introduced out so many actual feelings in him.

I’ve obtained sons. I’ve a daughter. I had a tough relationship with my dad. I imply, all these issues are there. So I used life expertise as an actor. Sam and I each are type of from the simply pure out-of-the-ground performing faculty. We’re not fancy guys. So if I don’t really feel like crying, I don’t… There are scenes the place possibly it’s imagined to be one factor, and I do one other. Generally, I’ll bawl my eyes out in a scene that doesn’t say that on the face. On this case, they coincided, and I couldn’t assist it, as a result of when you will have children and also you’ve you’ve had difficulties and love and pleasure and all the pieces else you will have in a household, if you’re doing scenes about that, you don’t give it some thought beforehand a lot. It’s simply that if you’re in the course of it and also you’re speaking to somebody — when Jacob was speaking to me — you may’t assist it. I imply, you go there. And Taylor writes very pure stuff, and he employed a bunch of pure actors, I imply, that entire solid… he knew what he was doing there.

This episode of Landman options a number of the collection’ most intimate and susceptible moments. It reveals a long time of ache which have haunted and formed the characters. The uncooked performances from the actors and Sheridan’s proficient writing make the present stand out from the remainder in its style. With extra episodes forward, the collection proves far deeper than simply one other drama.

Landman season 2 releases new episodes each Sunday on Paramount+.