We’ve talked before about your car scene with Billy Bob Thornton in Episode 2<\/a>, which was so sweet for the two of them, who are not given to verbalizing a lot of what they feel for each other.
It was a special moment.<\/p>\nTVLINE | I would say that the scene in this episode when they’re in The Patch Caf\u00e9 having breakfast is a similar moment.
Yeah, very similar. [Laughs] Just a little rougher, you know? Tommy raises Cooper in a way which I relate to very much. I mean, when you come from this part of the world and it’s blue-collar work, or dangerous work, to be raised by a man that does it and to want to follow in those footsteps? They don’t take it easy on you, because no one else is going to, and life’s not going to. So I think that’s a great understanding, and me and Billy really fell into that. We’re both from the same place, so that dynamic just works for us. I’m used to being taught that way. I think he definitely was, too. It really translates well that we come from that understanding, just in real life, of having that relationship, the father-son thing, and I think that translates a lot to the screen and allows us to do it in a natural way. [Laughs] You know, I’ve taken that a**-eating from my dad before in the same way.<\/p>\n
TVLINE | Tommy really swoops in and saves the day there, right? Cooper would be really screwed if he didn’t have his back.
It would be over, yeah. That’s the father-son relationship, you know? He knows that he screwed up. [Tommy] could go in a lot harder than he is for the stress that he’s under, dealing with it, but he knows it was a mistake made from trying to do good. [He’s] just got to learn the process and figure out the steps in which to get there now, and that’s going to be Cooper’s next learning curve.<\/p>\n
TVLINE | Do you think that the Cooper we met in Season 1 would have seen this as the gift that it is?
No, not at all. I think it was really eye-opening for Cooper in that instance to understand “I actually don’t have an idea of what I’m doing. I got really lucky,” and he knows that he did. He’s smart on the geological side and knows how he can find oil. Hopefully, he’ll keep doing that throughout. I’m sure at some point there will be some dry holes \u2014 that’s just the gamble that you take. But he has found this thing, and he’s good at that side. He just doesn’t understand the business side at all yet. He’s jumping in a little fast before he has an understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning:\u00a0This post contains spoilers from “Landman”\u00a0Episode 5. Proceed accordingly. Cooper Norris, we’re proud of you. In this week’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-192177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}