Summary

Landman Season 2 is streaming on Paramount+ with Andy Garcia and Demi Moore joining the fallout.

Rebecca and Nate must rebuild trust, clean up Season 1’s mess, and brace for even crazier stakes.

Kayla Wallace preps Sheridan’s giant legal monologues obsessively; show wins praise for oil-country authenticity.

Taylor Sheridan’s Landman is officially back on Paramount+ for Season 2. In the wake of that Season 1 finale shake-up, Billy Bob Thornton’s Tommy has his work cut out for him with the arrival of Andy Garcia’s Galino and Demi Moore’s Cami Miller stepping in for her late husband. With Season 2 now streaming, Collider’s Steve Weintraub spoke with Kayla Wallace and Colm Feore, who play attorneys Rebecca Falcone and Nate. While chatting, the pair discuss the mess left for them at the end of Season 1, “building a new relationship” for the company, and how Sheridan and Boomtown creator and Landman co-creator Christian Wallace maintain the series’ authenticity. Feore also looks back on the making of John Woo’s Face/Off with Nicolas Cage and John Travolta, and reveals the outrageous deaths that never made it to the screen. You can watch the full conversation in the video above or read the transcript below.
John Woo Made a Major Change to ‘Face/Off’ While Filming

“They were running out of time and money.”

John Travolta (left) and Nicholas Cage (right) in “Face/Off”.Image via Paramount Pictures 

COLLIDER: Colm, I have an individual question for you, if you don’t mind. I’m a huge fan of the movie Face/Off, which you are in. I know, I’m reaching back in the day. What the hell do you remember about making that film, and when you were making it, did you have any idea that it was going to become this big, huge movie? COLM FEORE: Yeah, sort of. I am the doctor who takes the faces off. It’s an extraordinary movie, and John Woo is just an extraordinary director. By the time I got there to do it, they had shot a lot of the action sequences. They had done a lot of stuff, so we had to get a move on and finish up. But they were showing, just as a teaser, the boat chase. So everybody went, “Oh my gosh. And Joan Allen is in this? Wait a minute. What’s going on here?” We’re getting all these brilliant actors, you’ve got all this action, and John’s just so delightful. I was hired, I think, for my apparent mastery of polysyllables. I had some sciency stuff to say, and I come from the classical theater, so that perhaps isn’t too much of a stretch. So what happened was John just said, “You read the script?” Forgive the accent, but that’s how we talked. He was smoking. “Did you read a script?” “Yeah.” “You meet John [Travolta]? You meet everybody else? You make character. Have fun!” And he smacked me on the back, and went, “Off you go.” And it was a wonderful experience. The only thing that was slightly bad about it was, as I said, they were running out of time and money, and when they had to kill a lot of these characters, they decided one had a car chase off a cliff in Malibu, one was [lit on fire], and one had been shot in the head in a parking lot. John said, “Let’s just bring them all together, and we’ll kill them together.” So they tied us all together, with a bit of string, as you recall, and lit the room on fire. Now, if you look closely at the film, you can tell that I had a reservation at Wolfgang Puck’s that night, which I had waited a year to go to, and so when other people were begging not to die and I’m tied to CCH Pounder and somebody else, and they light the room on fire, which they did with a ball of glue, I’m doing, “Please, just just kill me. I have dinner. I have to go.” [Laughs] So, thanks for asking. I am a huge fan of that movie.
These ‘Landman’ Stars Have an Epic Taylor Sheridan Crossover Idea

Wallace also discusses how she masters all of Rebecca’s monologues.

Custom image of Zoë-Saldaña for an interview for Special Ops: LionessCustom image via Jefferson Chacon

If Landman could cross over with another Taylor Sheridan show, what show would you love to crossover with? KAYLA WALLACE: Oh my gosh, it would freak me out, but I would say Lioness. FEORE: Oh, that’s in the Middle East. Yeah. I think you’re onto something. Tell Taylor. Maybe with some dark, undercover… WALLACE: Yes. Yeah. FEORE: Would they need a couple of lawyers to get on a plane and go to something really glamorous? WALLACE: Oh my gosh. Let’s make it happen. FEORE: With action. Kayla, one of the things about the first season and the first two episodes of Season 2 is that Taylor gives you these huge kickass monologues, where you need to walk into a room and just own the room, and you are the fucking boss. What is it like as an actor getting these amazing monologues, and what is it like in the week leading up to filming that scene where you need to know that shit backwards and forwards? WALLACE: Looking at the monologues from afar, you just see the size of them and the amount of them, with a couple of the other actors’ lines sprinkled in between. It’s intimidating, I gotta say. And it was more intimidating in Season 1, when I didn’t really know what to expect of Rebecca. Then I saw the amount of words that I didn’t know what they meant at the time. Very intimidating. But then you get into it, and Taylor has such a way of writing these monologues that eventually they just flow off of your tongue. He’s such a pro, and he writes these legal jargon monologues so beautifully that you find the ways to find the peaks and valleys within them. But the week before, in Fort Worth, I’m walking the river, I’ve got my script in hand. I’m saying it out loud. I’m saying it in my car. I probably look like a crazy person driving. You want it to be in your body because it’s so much. So, yeah, I walk a lot with the words. I find that to be helpful. FEORE: And then she just kills it. WALLACE: Oh, thanks.

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Season 2 Brings New Relationships and “Crazier” Messes to Clean Up

“It was so much fun to explore. ”

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Oh, yeah. What do you both want to tease about Season 2? FEORE: Well, we’re building a new relationship, trying to get along and help the company survive. So it means that we’re having to collaborate and cooperate on finding out what the mess was that was left at the end of Season 2, and how it is explained, and how we discover what it actually is in the beginning of Season 2, and then moving on, where it gets crazier. WALLACE: It does. It gets a lot crazier. With Rebecca, she’s learning how to be who she is in this new role, trying to work with Nate. We’re trying to save the company, and within that, you see some cracks in her personality, which I’m excited for people to see. It was so much fun to explore. And we get to see some more sides of her that we did not get to see last season. I can’t say too much more on that, but there’s a lot more coming. I would imagine being in Fort Worth, when you’re filming, you’ve met people who are in the oil industry or people who watch the show. What if real people want to talk to you about the show? I’m just so curious, especially oil industry people. FEORE: Real oil industry people have told us we got it pretty much right. There’ll always be a guy who has a quibble. “Well, that wasn’t quite exactly how we would do it,” and I’m fine with that. Occasionally, there’s dramatic license that needs to be taken about certain things. There’s a story that needs to be driven forward. But in the main, we are very particular about the clothes. I bumped into a lawyer, a Texas lawyer from Midland, educated in Dallas, and we were in a hotel in Odessa, and he was dressed just like me, and he acted like me. I almost creeped on him and walked out with he and his wife just to keep writing some stuff down. “Excuse me, sir, can I talk to you a little bit? Because you are exactly who they’ve written and designed to be in this.” And he was just a straight-up oil and gas attorney in Midland, Texas. We are a little bit proud of getting so much of that stuff right because we believe it makes sense to people, and that they go, “I believe that. They’re telling me the truth.” I think that’s important.

WALLACE: Yeah. The amount of people who have come up to me with love for the show has been overwhelming. I’ve never had that in my career thus far. Especially in Fort Worth. The Fort Worth people are proud of Landman, which is really cool. But yeah, I’ve had people who are like, “My dad’s a landman. We love the show. He says that it’s actually like this.” Obviously, like you said, there are storylines that are kind of heightened for the sake of everybody’s enjoyment, but that’s what makes our show so wonderful is it’s crazy, it’s wild, it’s so out there, but it’s also a peek into this very real world of risk, reward, oil, and gas. FEORE: So much of it was taken from the legit real-world Boomtown podcast by our co-creator Christian Wallace. He just went and was doing a report. He’s a journalist as well as being a roughneck, so he went out and just talked to the people that he worked with, and said, “What’s a boomtown like? Tell me the tale. You guys are three beautiful women running a kind of strip coffee place at three in the morning for roughnecks? Is that a business?” “Oh, yes. And very successful.” So when you get into those sort of stories and say they’re actually true, I think we have a lot more bona fides, if you will, going around and telling people. The co-creation is Christian Wallace with Taylor Sheridan, Taylor just tweaking here and there. So I would be telling people in my grocery store, “Hey, this is a true story. This stuff really happens.” We’re trying to be as true to the veracity of it as we possibly can. Landman Season 2 is available to stream on Paramount+ now. New episodes drop every Sunday.