The season 2 finale of Taylor Sheridan‘s Landman lastly revealed if Sam Elliott‘s character slept with Francesca Xuereb‘s Cheyenne, who’s the present’s stripper turned bodily therapist.
Through the Sunday, January 18, episode of the hit Paramount+ collection, Cheyenne (Xuereb) made an look at breakfast within the Norris family. Her state of undress made Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) assume Cheyenne connected along with his dad, T.L (Elliott), to which she replied, “You’re the one who stated handjob.”
Tommy cornered T.L. to inform him what occurred the evening earlier than.
“She spent the evening. The battery died in her digital camera,” T.L. stated earlier than shutting down Tommy’s follow-up questions. “No. 1, it’s none of your f***ing enterprise. No. 2 is none of your online business both.”
He continued: “Her automobile battery died. We slept, that’s all we did. And I received to carry an attractive lady in my arms for the primary time in 50 years. At the moment I really feel higher than I felt in a long time. So I might respect if you wouldn’t f*** that feeling as much as me. Good for the physique and the soul.”
Cheyenne remained by T.L.’s facet when Tommy requested them to return meet him on the finish of the episode. Tommy informed son Cooper (Jacob Lofland) to name Cheyenne, saying, “She’s in all probability below stripper.”
Cooper, nonetheless, identified that his dad had a number of strippers in his cellphone: Jasmine, Concord and Future. Tommy defended himself, including, “It’s all for work.”
Elliott was launched earlier this season. The actor beforehand informed ExtraTV that he was booked for 2 years on Landman. After working with creator Sheridan on 1883, Elliott opened up about coming again for Landman.
“[With T.L.’s story line], it’s simply on the web page. I had time to consider it. I simply wished to be open to no matter comes my manner,” he defined to Selection in November 2025. “When you’ve that sort of materials, you don’t have a look at a chunk of fabric, or a minimum of I don’t have a look at a chunk of fabric, and say, ‘I’d actually like to cry right here,’ or, ‘Actually like to make the viewers cry,’ or no matter. It simply has to return naturally.”
Elliott was thrilled to deliver Sheridan’s work to life, including, “One of many nice presents about Taylor’s materials is that it simply permits that sort of emotion to circulate. I spent a superb a part of my time in tears this complete season, so it wasn’t one thing I anticipated, but it surely’s simply one thing that occurred.”
The actor associated T.L.’s story to his personal life.
“I’ve spent a superb portion of my life rising up within the outside, and there’s one thing about Taylor’s materials that I really feel prefer it hinges on that in some respect. That basically speaks deeply to me,” Elliott, who shares a daughter with spouse Katharine Ross, defined. “It’s this man linked to the bottom, what comes up out of the bottom. It’s definitely not like 1883 the place we’re out within the components and all that on a regular basis, however there’s one thing about what I worth personally.”
He continued: “It’s like the place I dwell. I dwell on the western finish of Malibu. I’ve been there for 50 years with my spouse and daughter. That takes me away from L.A. fully, and it’s a alternative I’ve made. It’s in all probability not the neatest alternative when it comes to pursuing a profession within the film enterprise.”
Elliott discovered it straightforward to narrate to the challenges his character faces. “There’s one thing about this man sitting in a wheelchair at 81 or 82 years previous, nonetheless previous he’s, watching the solar go down. I imply, I don’t understand how far more to say about it than that. There’s a motive for that,” he concluded. “He’s drawn to that, and he talks about it in episode 2, the sunshine and the mud and the warmth and the dearth of moisture and the issues we hate about that nation. It hates us all day, after which it provides us this sundown. These components communicate very, very strongly to me.”
Landman is presently streaming on Paramount+.
