‘Landman’ Star Michelle Randolph On Playing Billy Bob Thornton’s Daughter & Entertaining The Old Folks With Her MILF Mom

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Talk about being in the right place at the right time: Michelle Randolph was busy playing a Dutton bride-to-be Elizabeth Strafford in the Paramount+ drama 1923 when Creator Taylor Sheridan asked her to audition for Billy Bob Thornton‘s daughter Ainsley Norris in Landman.

Within 24 hours, she had the promise of a second job once the first season of the Yellowstone prequel was over. That job turned out to be a breakout role for Randolph, who together with Ali Larter as her mom Angela, have provided a welcome amount of levity to an otherwise tense drama about the dangers of pumping oil in West Texas.

Here, Randolph explains what it’s like to play a 17-year-old siren with a MILF for a mom and a dad who really doesn’t want to be his daughter’s best friend. DEADLINE When did Taylor Sheridan approach you about doing Landman? MICHELLE RANDOLPH We were in the middle of 1923 and he called me to say, ‘there’s this project Landman, there’s this character Ainsley, and I want you for it, but there’s a catch.

I need you to put 18 pages of dialogue on tape by tomorrow morning. And she has an accent.’ I was still in 1920s Elizabeth mode, but I locked myself in a room for the entire night and just studied.