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Jacob Lofland's Cooper finds his effort to be an oil rig crew worker becoming all the more difficult in Landman. Lofland found immediate success when making his acting debut in Jeff Nichols' Mud, having followed it up with subsequent roles in FX's Justified, the Maze Runner franchise, the Bill Paxton-led Texas Rising miniseries and Pierce Brosnan-led Western drama The Son.
With the season just past its halfway point, ScreenRant interviewed Jacob Lofland to discuss Landman, the intensity of filming the episode 1 oil rig explosion, why Cooper and Ariana find themselves so drawn to one another, why Cooper is so determined to be an oil rig worker, in spite of the fatal accident, what the dynamic is between Cooper, his mom and his sister, his episode 5 cliffhanger fate, and his thoughts on the Maze Runner reboot.
That explosion could easily deter someone from this line of work, and yet Cooper really is just so driven to be in this field. Why do you think it is that he is, despite his parents' wishes, despite his sister's wishes, still so driven to be an oil worker? ✕ Remove Ads Jacob Lofland: I think a lot of their connection is trauma bonding, more than anything. I don't think either one of them really can stand to just sit in their own thoughts at this moment. So, just to have something with someone, even if you're not talking, just to have someone sitting there is just kind of nice.
✕ Remove Ads Jacob Lofland: I think he's just too nice. I mean, at the end of the day, he's drawn to her, but at the time, I think he's really just trying to help her and be nice and get away with it, and he just finds himself in this bad position, you know? He's really not trying to get anything out of this. He's just trying to help, and d--n it, they won't leave him alone.
✕ Remove Ads Jacob Lofland: Not a lot, honestly, you've got about as much as I do going into it. That's kind of a running joke that Michelle and I have is we don't know why we dislike each other, and that has not been written.
✕ Remove Ads Jacob Lofland: That's a really good question, and I don't have a very good answer for it, honestly. I'm kind of just sitting here going,"I can't wait to see what Taylor's got in store." As an actor, I've never been able to go,"Oh, this is what I would like to do." It's always,"This is what we got to do.
Jacob Lofland: Well, picking it up, I think they taught me more in the five-day roughneck camp that we did that they set up. When it comes down to that stuff, it's more just knowing what you're doing, and what you're grabbing, because it's a lot of danger mixed in. At any point, anything you're touching weighs 1000s of pounds to tons, multiple tons at a time, and all this is driven off hydraulics and motors.
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