{"id":33979,"date":"2026-06-16T23:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/ali-larter-on-landman-false-narrative-around-taylor-sheridan\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:31:41","slug":"ali-larter-on-landman-false-narrative-around-taylor-sheridan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/ali-larter-on-landman-false-narrative-around-taylor-sheridan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Larter on &#8216;Landman,&#8217; &#8216;False Narrative&#8217; Around Taylor Sheridan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ali-larter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ali-larter_1\" data-tag=\"ali-larter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Larter<\/a>, the guest on this 650th episode of <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u2019s <em>Awards Chatter<\/em> podcast, is a stunning and versatile actress who has had a rollercoaster of a career that is now in its 30th year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"pmc-protected-embed-2\" class=\"pmc-protected-embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=PMC6222260911\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShe was a scream queen in <em>House on Haunted Hill<\/em>, two <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/final-destination\/\" id=\"auto-tag_final-destination_1\" data-tag=\"final-destination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Final Destination<\/a><\/em> films and three <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/resident-evil\/\" id=\"auto-tag_resident-evil_1\" data-tag=\"resident-evil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resident Evil<\/a><\/em> films. She was seductive in <em>Varsity Blues<\/em>; hilarious in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/legally-blonde\/\" id=\"auto-tag_legally-blonde_1\" data-tag=\"legally-blonde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legally Blonde<\/a><\/em>;\u00a0and played multiple characters on <em>Heroes<\/em>. And, in <em>Obsessed<\/em>, she went toe-to-toe with Beyonc\u00e9. But she has never been better than she is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/taylor-sheridan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-sheridan_1\" data-tag=\"taylor-sheridan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Sheridan<\/a>\u2019s smash-hit Paramount+ drama series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/landman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_landman_1\" data-tag=\"landman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Landman<\/a><\/em>, playing Angela Norris, the volatile, free-spirited and irresistible ex- and probably future wife of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/billy-bob-thornton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billy-bob-thornton_1\" data-tag=\"billy-bob-thornton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billy Bob Thornton<\/a>\u2019s Tommy and mother of Jacob Lofland and Michelle Randolph\u2019s Cooper and Ainsley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEarlier this year, for the second season of <em>Landman<\/em>, Larter and her castmates received a best ensemble in a drama series Actor Award nomination. Now, the show is poised to land its first Emmy nominations, perhaps for best drama series and, for Larter, best supporting actress in a drama series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOver the course of a conversation at the LA offices of <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>, the 50-year-old reflected on how modeling led her to acting via a game-changing magazine cover; the frustrations she has had, over the years, of trying to find multi-dimensional parts, particularly after giving birth to her two children; how, against all odds, <em>Landman<\/em> came along shortly after she and her family relocated from L.A. to Idaho; plus more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYou can listen to the full conversation via the audio player above or read excerpts of it \u2014 lightly edited for clarity and\/or brevity \u2014 below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>On appearing on the cover of the November 1996 edition of <\/em>Esquire<em> as \u201cAllegra Coleman,\u201d supposedly Hollywood\u2019s next big thing\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThey wanted to play a hoax. I think the biggest joke was that people <em>believed<\/em> it, because nobody actually read the longform article. If you actually read it, you would know that it was a joke, but people were skimming and just going, \u2018Oh my God, who is this?!\u2019 And then it started. That was the door that opened, that got me my manager. Any young actor in this business knows the hardest part is just getting in the door \u2014\u00a0actually, that\u2019s not true, the hardest part is sustaining a long career. But getting in the door is the first step, and that was my moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>On her <\/em><\/strong><strong>Dawson\u2019s Creek<em> and <\/em>Varsity Blues<em> costar James Van Der Beek, who died in February\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cHe was unbelievably talented. He had such a pivot in his life from this industry, and was able to have these incredibly beautiful children and this wonderful marriage and find some happiness outside of this industry\u2026 I\u2019m devastated by his loss, but also going, I\u2019m so happy that he was able to, I think, find some peace and joy in his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>On her early days as a scream queen\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m able to look back at those movies and love them now. When I was in the midst of it, it was harder for me, because I wanted to be this really gritty, raw indie actress. But I fought for these roles, I got these roles, and they had tremendous success. They just kept launching me to the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>On <\/em><\/strong><strong>Heroes<em>\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cIt was really great. With that show, I was digging into Jungian theory. I was going into the shadow side. I was trying to figure out how to play these two sides of this person. So that was getting to really dig in on a network TV show. It was an incredible cast, and I thought it was a really special first season. Then, sadly, what often happens in Hollywood is that writers change, people take that scoop of the Kool-Aid, and you lose the creative vision of what something should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>On coming back from giving birth to her children in 2010 and 2015\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cEspecially with your first child, you\u2019re looked upon differently after you become a mother. There\u2019s definitely anomalies and exceptions to that rule, but I\u2019ve always been part of the mass of it. I also gained a lot of weight with my children, so nobody believes you\u2019re ever going to look good again. So it takes time to get that back. A year off in this business is a long time. This business is built for you to be part of a machine that continues to work. If you ever take your foot off the pedal, you\u2019re going to be in trouble. I\u2019ve never followed that rule, which means I have to constantly restart my career. But having my children and spending the time home with them will always be one of my greatest choices, and I\u2019m so proud that I did. You never know if you\u2019re going to get it back, but my priorities have always been about my family first. It\u2019s just hard in this business, unless you\u2019re to a certain point in your career where it doesn\u2019t matter, which is the case for very, very few. I always will think of myself as a working actor who\u2019s had extraordinary triumphs and a lot of dry spells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>On Taylor Sheridan and the process that led to her being cast for <\/em><\/strong><strong>Landman<em>\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI knew him briefly in early life. He was at Howard Fine [the acting studio], and he was part of that whole world with Amy Smart [Larter\u2019s longtime friend]. But I hadn\u2019t talked to him in over a decade. He had had extraordinary success with <em>Wind River<\/em> and <em>Sicario<\/em>. It\u2019s funny, after people get success, you don\u2019t want to reach out. Even though you want to say, \u2018Oh my gosh, <em>Sicario<\/em> was brilliant, <em>Wind River<\/em> was brilliant,\u2019 you don\u2019t want people to think you\u2019re calling them because they\u2019re having success. It\u2019s just not in me to do that. Anyway, this audition came from John Papsidera, who put me in <em>Final Destination<\/em> and a bunch of different things\u2026 It was four pages, and I put them in. Then you wait a couple of weeks. Then I get a callback, and it was eight pages. So then you dig deeper in. I also started to get more information about this character. Then I think I had to do 12 or 13 pages. Then I got invited to come down and test for the show. It literally laid me out in my bed, like in a paralyzed state. I was not well because of the pressure. I\u2019ve never been a good auditioner\u2026 I just had to have my call to faith and be like, \u2018Girl, you got to go fight for this. You got to pull it together.\u2019 It was 18 pages. I got down there, I walked into a room, and there was 11 women there \u2014\u00a010 other women and me\u2026 [Weeks later] We had just bought a house in Idaho at that point, and I was sitting in the driveway, and it was halfway built. I remember \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s gonna make me cry \u2014\u00a0I looked down and I saw him calling my phone, and I was just like, \u2018Oh my God.\u2019 He\u2019s just like, \u2018It\u2019s yours. You\u2019ve had it. You\u2019ve had it the whole time.\u2019 I was just so excited because I knew it was going to change my life. I didn\u2019t know to this level, but I knew I was going to get to work with an Oscar-winning actor [Billy Bob Thornton, who actually won his Oscar for screenwriting], who is just such a profound genius who\u2019s raised my game and made me a better actor. The whole cast elevates it. Stephen Kay [the show\u2019s primary director] has raised me to the next level. I knew I was going to get to work with incredibly talented people, but then the success of it? You\u2019re just like, so much gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>On the argument from some that Sheridan does not write female characters well, even though he has attracted the collaboration and admiration of her, Michelle Randolph, Demi Moore, Kelly Reilly, Nicole Kidman, Zoe Salda\u00f1a, Helen Mirren and Michelle Pfeiffer, among others\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s just a false narrative\u2026 I also feel like what he does is, you just don\u2019t see a lot of women in film and television that embrace their sexuality. It just stops at a certain age. I\u2019m always amazed at how shocked people are by it [on <em>Landman<\/em>], and I\u2019m thrilled, because it\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>On Sheridan\u2019s general elusiveness\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think that you can pin him down. I think that he\u2019s not going to come back into the machine that just wants to break him down. And he wants to work. He\u2019s an extraordinarily hard worker. He\u2019s a brilliant talent. He wants to do it his way. And I think that it\u2019s very hard in our industry to do things your own way when you\u2019re part of the machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>On the powerful last scene of <\/em>Landman<em>\u2019s second season\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s the kind of work that I love to do, the really quiet, intimate moments. We had one take. The sun\u2019s going down. I\u2019m out there looking at the horses. \u2018Action!\u2019 He\u2019s walking up behind me. The dialogue in that scene was so beautiful. You\u2019ve got to understand how she wants him to see the world and how much he has. Then you know it\u2019s going to be a trainwreck in the next minute. But when you have that kind of grounded love, it\u2019s so sweet. These incredible Texan sunsets, it\u2019s just so beautiful, and you can just feel it in the air. I hope I get to do more of those scenes. Those are definitely my favorite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>On how <\/em>Landman<em> has impacted the way the industry sees her\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cPeople within the industry have been so complimentary towards me and just really happy for me. They knew it was in there, but I just needed the right writer and the right role. I got this chance, and I was able to rise to the occasion. It\u2019s exciting to be 50 years old and to have it all opened up to me again. I\u2019m not jumping in \u2014\u00a0I turned down a couple movies\u2026 I\u2019m not going to take something that doesn\u2019t feel like it\u2019s going to be the creative experience that I want to have, because I don\u2019t need to right now\u2026 I have a show that I want to make. I think the doors are just opened again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Larter, the guest on this 650th episode of The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s Awards Chatter podcast, is a stunning and versatile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ali-Larter-Awards-Chatter-Getty-H-2026.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}