Spoiler warning! The following article contains some spoilers for the ending of the first season of Landman.
With Monty (Jon Hamm) dying at the end of season 1, widow Cami (Demi Moore) and Tommy’s (Billy Bob Thornton) lives are now changed for good. As Tommy steps up to be President of M-Tex, Cami is now its sole owner… and that means being confronted with a lot of skeletons in Monty’s closest.
While Tommy is steadily being pushed to breaking point, it’s Cami’s reintroduction to the industry that has me most intrigued this week. So, when I met Demi Moore (as if that’s a sentence I’m actually writing) ahead of season 2’s launch, I found out more about her scathing speech from season 2’s first episode and how filming changed without Hamm around.
Cami doesn’t want to ‘lose the last vestige of Monty’ in Landman season 2, says Demi Moore
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“I feel like definitely one of the anchor points was her stepping out as somebody who’s being underestimated,” Moore tells me about how she approached Cami’s fiery speech to her fellow West Texas oil tycoons, which was essentially a warning shot not to mess with her.
“I think that there was a level of vulnerability, and I really also related to that balance of fear and courage. Courage is really just being willing to face your fear, and clearly that was something just to step out of her fear for a bigger goal, a more important one, which is something that’s bigger than her.
“I think holding on to her family like this is not just about the company, it’s about not losing the last vestige of Monty.”
I can’t lie, I miss not having Hamm around already. Given that Moore was so incredibly underused in Landman season 1, I can see how we needed to get him out the way so that she could thrive… but even so. So, how did things change behind the camera without Hamm around?
“We do miss him, because he was so fun,” Moore says. “But it’s part of Taylor Sheridan’s brilliance. Who would have ever expected to have somebody like Jon Hamm be who we then lose?
“Taylor’s just so smart about keeping things surprising, unexpected, those twists and turns. As the actor, playing and being part of a show makes it always interesting and intriguing, but I think also as a viewer too. It keeps Landman so alive.”
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