Billy Bob Thornton Drops Major Revelation About His ‘Landman’ Character Tommy Norris

Deadline’s Contenders TV panel for Landman hosted a very cool group of guys: Sam Elliott, Andy Garcia, director/EP Stephen Kay and Billy Bob Thornton — who looked at every bit the rock star and cowboy onstage at the DGA Theater after playing a sold-out show with his band The Boxmasters at Stagecoach the night before.
Thornton explained why becoming the series’ Tommy Norris came naturally to him.
“It’s easy to play father-son relationships when you’re a father, and when you had a father that you had a very tricky relationship with,” he said. “I was just kind of putting on a nice pair of worn-in pants.” He added of his TV dad, “Sam and I go way back, so it was easy.”
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