There seems to be no limit to how far Billy Bob Thornton and Ali Larter’s antics will go in Landman.
The Dec. 28th episode of Taylor Sheridan’s hit series opened with Tommy (Thornton) asleep in a hotel room, where a waitress was at the foot of the bed setting up a room service tray. When he woke up, rustling the sheets and exposing he was naked aside from a t-shirt, she screamed, begging him, “Don’t rape me!”
“Who the f— are you?” a confused Tommy asked. “I’m not gonna r@pe you.” Angela (Larter) then swooped in and told her husband, “Put your d!ck away,” before slipping the waitress a $100 bill. “Don’t be scared, darling. That wasn’t about you. He eats Cialis like M&Ms, runs into door jams all morning with that thing. So sorry about that.”
When the waitress left, Angela explained that she was trying to surprise Tommy with breakfast in bed, to which he said she “sure as s—” surprised him. “That is not the best angle of your ball sack, I might add,” Angela quipped. “I’d scream too.”
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“You know, you really gotta love a man to look at him from there,” she continued, berating her husband for exposing himself below the belt. “Poor thing, if she wasn’t a lesbian when she walked in here, she’s a f—— lesbian now.” She then changed out of her nightgown as she told Tommy, “When my husband flashes the waitstaff, it kind of kills the mood.”
While Angela’s mood was killed by the less-than-ideal wake-up, Tommy wasn’t in as much control of his situation. “Well, honey, you’re the one who told me to take an extra pill last night,” he lamented. “Now what do I do with this f—— thing?”
She then suggested he “f— one of those waffles,” and he threatened to f— her omelet, which really sets her off. “Way to ruin the weekend, Tommy,” she told him, though they of course made up later in the episode.
The pair are always up to something in the Paramount+ series, and both Thornton and Larter have told PEOPLE how much they relish their hilarious on-screen dynamic. “Every time we do scenes together, it’s just a load of fun,” Thornton, 70, said, raving about the “natural chemistry” he and Larter, 49, share. “Automatically, Ali and I were just passionate friends.”
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Their craziness on-screen reminds him of some of his own memories, too. “I get flashbacks from my past, every now and then, from various times of my life,” he said. Larter, meanwhile, has called her scene partner “one of the best actors working in our business.”
“He brings out the best in me,” she told PEOPLE ahead of the season 2 premiere. “In our world, when we’re working together, there’s just never an inauthentic beat, and that is incredible. I love him so much.”
New episodes of Landman premiere Sundays on Paramount+



