00:04so in the beginning money and business is that the real american dream what do you think
00:12do i think it is the american dream yeah well for some people yeah i mean i think the idea
00:21of the american dream is different you know from individual to individual i think it's a place
00:29where you can succeed if you if you try hard at it but um uh you know a lot a
00:38lot of landman is about
00:39people who came up in this business it's like a family thing so you know sometimes you don't choose
00:46what how you want to make yourself a success you're just kind of born into it and uh these
00:53characters my character monty my the new character of of sam elliott as my father we came in into it
01:01you know so my father his father before him they were all in it and uh they really don't know
01:08any
01:08other way you know it's like i don't know what tommy norris would do if he didn't work in the
01:13oil
01:13business you know he probably wouldn't be playing banjo in a bluegrass band
01:20humor humor humor is important in the show how did you work on that side of tommy
01:26uh well you know i've done a lot of movies with a lot of humor in them and and i'm
01:32kind of an
01:32improvisational actor you know traditionally so uh the humor wasn't hard and also the people i'm
01:40working with they're all very humorous so it's easy to play off each other and taylor wrote a very
01:47some very humorous dialogue so if you just stay true to his dialogue it's easy
01:56tommy for me is a modern cowboy uh do you think that the western is the true american epic
02:04yes i think so i mean you know westerns are things that we grew up on and those were the
02:11stories that
02:12had everything in them they were almost like the west version of shakespeare sometimes you know
02:20these kinds of stories you know and uh they're just set in a different you know time and in the
02:28old
02:28west with uh but you have if you break it down you know westerns always had everything in them
02:36you know and uh and i think landman actually has the elements of a western and so that's very good
02:44of you to say that because most people don't get that part of it what stands out to you about
02:53taylor
02:53sheridan's writing well i think he he appeals to people because he writes characters who are just
03:00exactly who they are they they say and do whatever they feel you know and i think the world kind
03:07of
03:07responded to that you know uh somehow he struck a chord with not only the united states but worldwide
03:15and uh i i just think his writing is i think people can identify with it and you know with
03:24the
03:25characters he creates and uh the situations people get in because you know it's it's very funny that
03:31these days if you if you really look around the world and i've traveled the world people are people
03:38have at their core people are the same you know i mean we all have the same wants and desires
03:47and
03:47fears and everything and i think taylor captures that so i think that's why everybody responded to it
03:54in the end what does landman say about america today for you
04:04uh i mean that's that's a hard one because america is so swiftly changing all the time
04:10you know it's it's like from one day to the next you don't know what the heck's going on around
04:16here
04:16you know what i mean so um i think i think uh what landman uh i think landman has an
04:26element
04:26that like we talked about the westerns it's like there's something timeless about landman
04:31that uh it simply shows a slice of of a part of america a look behind the curtain of a
04:40world that
04:41we usually don't get to see you know and uh i don't i don't know how much i would connect
04:48it to
04:48america to america other than the characters are very not only american but very texas you know
04:56i know texas is a little different than the rest of the country in a lot of ways
05:01thank you thank you for your time baby thank you bye i appreciate it bye ciao
05:26you
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