The Oscar-nominated C&I reader favorite will join Billy Bob Thornton for Season 2 of the populat Paramount+ series.
Ever since we announced that the great Sam Elliott would join the cast of Landman for Season 2 of the popular Paramount+ series, readers have bombarded us with the burning question: Will he keep his mustache for this one?
Their concern was understandable, considering how the Oscar-nominated and SAG Award-winning actor ditched his trademark ’stache for his one-season run as the villainous Avery Markham in Justified.
Did the clean-shaven look help Elliott win a Critics Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series? Perhaps. Evidently, however, his many fans were not eager for him to take out his razor again.
We still don’t know much about the character he’ll be playing, other than his name is T.L. and his hair is quite white. On the other hand, Billy Bob Thronton’s title character fleetingly refers to T.L. as “Pop” in the first teaser trailer for Season 2. Consider the possibilities.
Elliott previously rubbed shoulders with Thornton in the Taylor Sheridan Universe for a memorable episode of 1883, Sheridan’s one-season prequel to his phenomenally popular Yellowstone. Tornton played Marshal Jim Courtright, a Fort Worth lawman who disposed of some bad boys who had attacked the wagon train led by Elliott’s Pinkerton agent Shea Brennan.
The two actors also appeared together in the classic 1993 western Tombstone — Elliott as Morgan Earp, Thornton as card dealer Johnny Tyler. According to USA Today, “Thornton recalls how he commuted to the Tombstone set in Elliott’s ‘old Suburban’ along with co‑star Bill Paxton. ‘And at the end of the day, we’d open an ice chest full of beer and we all had one, and then went to our hotel room.’”
The second season of Landman will pick up where Season 1 left off, with Thornton’s oil company crisis manager Tommy Lewis rising to the rank of company president as he joins his good friend Cami Miller (Demi Moore) to continue operations of M-Tex Oil following the death of Cami’s husband Monty Miller (Jon Hamm) in the season finale.
Joining Thornton and Moore: Ali Larter as Angela Norris, Tommy’s mercurial ex-wife; Jacob Lofland as Cooper Norris, Tommy and Angela’s ambitious son; Michelle Randolph as Ainsley Norris, Cooper’s strong-willed and fun-loving sister; and Paulina Chávez as Ariana, the recently widowed mom who has developed a relationship with Cooper.
Also: Andy Garcia as Gallino, a drug cartel kingpin who’s seriously considering transitioning into a more legitimate business; Kayla Wallace as Rebecca Falcone, a hard-charging lawyer on the M-Tex Oil payroll; Colm Feore as Nathan, an oil company attorney and administrator who resides with Tommy and his extended family; and James Jordan as Dale, a petroleum engineer who’s also a member of the Norris household.
Paramount+ obviously hopes the casting of Sam Elliott will make an already enormously successful series even more popular. Not that it really needs much help: Landman officially reached 14.9 million households through the first four weeks of its debut season, making it the most-watched original show in Paramount+ history.
