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Jacob Lofland Excited But Worried for Season 3

Jacob Lofland Excited But Worried for Season 3

[This story contains major spoilers from the Landman season two finale, “Tragedy and Flies.”] Jacob Lofland was thrilled with the season two ending to Landman. “I’m ready to get back with everybody on set,” he excitedly tells The Hollywood Reporter about returning to Texas to film the next era of the Paramount+ mega-hit oil drama. Production on the already renewed third season will pick up in the spring. So for now, Lofland, who plays Cooper Norris, is anxiously awaiting to see what writer and co-creator Taylor Sheridan will dream up for the Norris family. The second season ended on a hopeful note with Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) launching a new, independently run oil company called CTT Oil Exploration & Cattle and bringing his family and inner crew along for the hopefully lucrative ride. But the threat from cartel boss Gallino (Andy Garcia) hangs over the excitement — Tommy made a deal with the devil to launch CTT Oil, and if things go badly, Gallino will come after what Tommy loves most, which is his family. “The …

‘Landman’ Ends in Violent Cliffhanger, Jacob Lofland on End of Season 2

‘Landman’ Ends in Violent Cliffhanger, Jacob Lofland on End of Season 2

[This story contains major spoilers from the penultimate episode of Landman season two, “Plans, Tears and Sirens.”] The penultimate episode of Landman season two ended on a violent cliffhanger when Cooper Norris, the aspiring oil man son to Billy Bob Thornton‘s starring oil fixer who is played by Jacob Lofland, entered the back alley of the bar where his 22-year-old fiancée, Ariana (Paulina Chavez), works and found her being sexually assaulted by a former, disorderly bar patron. Cooper arrived after the man had beaten Ariana nearly unconscious and as he was removing her clothes in an attempt to rape her. Cooper launched onto the man and severely beat him until Ariana’s boss arrived. The episode ended by showing that a security camera was capturing the incident in the alley, and the police had been called. “This season, there were some twists and turns that you did not see coming. I tried to predict every bit of it before we read it, and some of it blew me off of feet. I was like, ‘I did …