The stars of Landman have experienced a few terrifying moments throughout their careers — and most of them didn’t even happen on the Paramount+ show’s set.
“We do some very dangerous work on this show. I have not done it personally, but to see it and hear the stories, I am like, ‘Girl,’” Paulina Chávez, who plays Ariana, told Us Weekly exclusively during the show’s second season premiere on Tuesday, November 11. “But the industry is super dangerous, and it’s something that I didn’t know until I went into this job.”
Even though she’s not doing the stunts, Chávez told Us that she has learned “a lot” from just being on set and watching her costars.
Aside from focusing on family, one thing Landman does really well is showcase the dangers of the oil industry — which it will continue to do when season 2 premieres Sunday, November 16.
Tanner Beard, who will make his Landman debut in the new season, offered some behind-the-scenes details about those oil rigs — and yes, they’re “very real.”
“It’s all real out there on those rigs. They’re really drilling. It’s crazy. I didn’t even know that,” he told Us. “I’m like, ‘Wait, we’re really drilling. This is amazing.’ But they have a lot of real people out there handling business, so it’s just fun to fall in and be an actor.”
Keep scrolling to see which stars reflected on their scariest moments throughout their careers:
Colm Feore
Feore, who plays Nathan in Landman, recalled “actually flying a plane” for the 1999 Michael Mann film The Insider.
“The pilot holding the camera, Michael Mann in the back, Bruce McGill the actor, and Michael Moore, the attorney general for Mississippi, are all in this plane at 11,000 feet — small private jet. I am pretending to fly it,” he recalled. “The pilot is holding the camera on me.”
He added, “Of course, outside the window there were clouds, and [Mann] said, ‘We could have shot this on the ground in a parking lot in Burbank.’ Can we land and I’m gonna go home and tell my wife that I did nothing dangerous today?”
Mustafa Speaks
The actor, who plays Boss on the show, has a background in “marine and environmental science,” so working with a falcon on Joe Pickett wasn’t the craziest thing he’s experienced — but it’s up there.
“Those things are extremely dangerous, and having to handle them so intimately every day, it was pretty scary,” he said.
Miriam Silverman
Silverman recalled filming in a marble mine in Greece and explained what made it difficult.
“There was a scene where a bunch of us had to flee from a scary event, wearing really high heels with haze everywhere, blinding you,” she said. “Knowing that at the end, right beyond the cameras, was a sheer drop, because we were on a mountain. The floor was cut marble, so it was completely uneven.”
While she did “feel safe,” it was still a “scary” moment for Silverman.
Tanner Beard
Beard told Us that there were “no rules whatsoever” when shooting a “low-budget film” in Spain.
“I remember being on a horse … and the horse didn’t speak English. I know that sounds silly, but we were in Spain” he recalled. “The horse actually stopped on his own as we neared a cliff, and I remember thinking, ‘This is definitely different than what you’re used to in America.’ Not that it was bad. It was just different.”
Caleb Martin
With a history in Westerns, the actor hasn’t had anything really “crazy” to him happen on set.
“I just started acting, and they asked me if I could do my own stunts. I’m like, ‘Yeah, for sure, no problem,’” he recalled. “They basically wanted my character to get knocked off his horse. No problem at all. But it was my first time doing stunts. I didn’t know what I was doing, but there was a tree limb just across, about the right height, and I went wide open and let that tree limb catch me on the chest, and it backflipped me.”
While it “looked really sick,” Martin said he “broke three ribs.”
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