Warning: This put up incorporates spoilers for Landman season 2, episode 4.
NEED TO KNOW
- Sam Elliott and Billy Bob Thornton play estranged father and son T.L. and Tommy in Landman season 2
- Within the Dec. 7 episode, Tommy reveals his violent upbringing for the primary time and explains the pressure it placed on him and his dad
- Elliott tells ipromiseyoumedia how the “fractured man” he performs will proceed to evolve this season
Sam Elliott made his Landman debut within the season 2 premiere as the daddy of Billy Bob Thornton’s character. Now, viewers are studying extra about their difficult dynamic.
Within the Dec. 7 episode of Taylor Sheridan’s hit sequence, the truth of Tommy’s (Thornton) painful childhood got here to mild when he revealed that his mom — who was an addict and died within the season 2 premiere — broke his nostril when he was 14 after he saved her life, which prompted him to depart dwelling and by no means return.
T.L. (Elliott), in the meantime, would take jobs that stored him away from dwelling for months at a time as a method of avoiding his spouse, which explains the stress between the daddy and son.
“This character I am enjoying is a fractured man,” Elliott, 81, tells ipromiseyoumedia. “It is gone on for him for years, since his spouse turned inward, and he waited ceaselessly for her to come back out of it, and she or he by no means actually did. However consequently, [Tommy] paid for it, whereas [T.L.] checked out.”
“So we will spend a lot of this season seeing T.L. early on — however then it turns into each of us, I feel — therapeutic that relationship that is falling aside,” he says.
He teases that it is an “emotional journey, for certain” as the daddy and son work to fix a decades-long rift, nevertheless it’s “quite a lot of enjoyable” too.
“It has been an actual present for me,” Elliott says of becoming a member of the sequence, his first position since his different Sheridan undertaking, 1883 in 2021. “That is my favourite phrase in relation to all of these items — whether or not it is this present or anything that Taylor does, principally.”
“However having a possibility to work with Billy once more — we have solely labored, briefly, a few occasions, and this time, we’re in deep, and it is only a deal with to go to work and be with him,” Elliott continues. “I’ve liked him afar for a very long time, and now I get to like him up shut. It is particular.”
Nonetheless, Elliott admits that it was “just a little overwhelming” strolling onto the Texas set earlier this yr, following the large success of season 1.
“Even after 56 years, or no matter it has been … I imply, coming in and becoming a member of [Thornton] on a longtime present, we now have a historical past, in order that made it lots simpler. Had I not recognized Billy earlier than this, it could’ve actually been daunting,” he says. “However I think about him an in depth buddy.”
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The Landman set is a particular one, Thornton says, echoing Elliott’s feedback.
“That is a type of the place you do not have days when you do not wish to go to work. We like to go to work on this present, and we love all of the forged, it is an incredible crew — greatest crew I’ve ever labored with,” Thornton tells ipromiseyoumedia. “And we now have the good phrases from Taylor, the good story from Taylor, and I imply, actually, I really feel blessed day by day due to this present. I imply, there’s by no means a day once I’m like, ‘Wow, I want I may get the hell out of right here.’ It by no means occurs. It is a great place to be.”
New episodes of Landman premiere Sundays on Paramount+
