Special Ops: Lionessis red hot on Paramount+, with a whopping100% Rotten Tomatoes scorefor its in-progress second season. Fans can’t wait to see what happens as the Zoe Saldaña series inches closer to the Season 2 finish line, and MovieWeb was recently graced with a special tease for what’s to come in the final episodes by another one of the show’s scene-stealing co-stars. Leading up to the release of his next Taylor Sheridan collaboration,Landman, actorJames Jordanspoke to MovieWeb about the current installment ofLioness.
“We’ve had a lot of big bangs so far, right?There’s even bigger ones coming, even bigger fights coming. So hang in there. Stick with us,” Jordan told us. “Episode 4 just dropped this past Sunday. We’ve got four more to go, andwe go out with a bang.”
Jordan also opened up about his rich history working alongside TV titan Sheridan across a number of other acclaimed series (Yellowstone, 1883, Mayor of Kingstown, to name a few) and how it all began. “I started out as a fan,” said Jordan. “I was unemployed… and I went to seeSicario, and I remember in August of 2015, I walked out of that theater, I’m not kidding you, I went to the poster, I thought, ‘Who wrote this movie?‘And I saw the name ‘Taylor Sheridan,’ and I immediately texted my manager, and I said, ‘I’ve got to work for this guy.'” Jordan continued:
“And a year and a half later, I was in his first movie,Wind River, whichhe directed, and the rest has been history. So, you know, I think it’s a dream come true for me to work with a writer that I admired so much and to be a part of his vision. And going to work for him is a blast every time — a challenge, but a blast.”
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Landman Stars Operated a Real Oil Rig: ‘This Is Not CGI or Fake’
Also joining our interview with Jordan wasLandmanco-starJacob Lofland, who playsleading man Billy Bob Thornton’sambitious son and a fellow oil rig worker opposite Jordan’s roughneck persona during the present-day West Texas scene. Lofland has a number of immersive and intense scenes down at the rigs, where things inevitably go awry, and he spoke to us about how he prepared for such authentically captured sequences. Lofland explained:
“The process of starting that was really — James went through a lot of it with me — we had a five-day roughneck camp and had to learn the proper way to do these skills and to work on these things without getting hurt becausewe actually had a real rig.This is not CGI or fake. We were running a rig, and once we figured out those skills, everything started flowing a lot better.But it definitely gave us the insight that we needed to be able to do this safely and to make it look as good as it does.”
From MTV Entertainment,Landmanwill begin streaming on Paramount+ starting November 17 with new episodes on Sundays. You can watch it through the link below:
