Landman slams criticism of Ali Larter, Michelle Randolph’s near-nudity
Taylor Sheridanof Landman found a way to address previous criticism of playing scantily clad characters Ali Larter and Michelle Randolph — and how they appear nearly naked on the show.
An episode of the hit Paramount+ series Tommy on Sunday, December 21billy bob thornton) sees his ex-wife Angela (Lutter) strutting around the house they share in a shirt that barely covers her bright yellow bra.
“Can you put your clothes on before you go downstairs?” he asked Angela, who shot back: “Oh, does it bother you to see my body?”
Tommy clarified that it didn’t particularly “bother” him, adding, “But there are other people here.” Angela then asked about Tommy’s dad ( Sam Elliott) if he had taken issue with her outfit, but he didn’t.
“I give up. I love you both and there’s nothing I can do about it,” Tommy says as daughter Ainsley (Randolph) walks in wearing a similar outfit. “I fucking surrendered.”
exist LandmanThe film will premiere on Paramount+ in November 2024, starring Thornton as a corporate broker for an oil giant (Jon Hamm). The West Texas-set drama has a life-or-death stakes, but Thornton’s scenes with Randolph (who plays his 17-year-old daughter) went viral, including her walking around his house in a bikini and lingerie talking to her father – who lives with two men of a similar age – about her sexual rules.
“I worked with a dialect coach, a movement coach and an acting coach, and I studied like crazy. It took me almost a year to prepare for her,” Randolph, 28, told me. hollywood reporter December 2024, regarding her attitude towards Ainsley. “It was very helpful to sit with this character. I worked really hard to find ways to justify her actions and make it seem like her actions weren’t always what a 17-year-old would say, but that people like that do exist.”
First appeared in Sheridan’s 1923 series, randolph said Landman For her it “took ten times more preparation.”
“I wanted to be very careful about the impression Ainsley gave. There’s only so much I can control, but you can control a lot as an actor,” she shared. “As long as I’m with Ali [Larter] and billy [Bob Thornton] and Jacob [Lofland] Being in Texas really helped shape the whole person Ainsley is. There’s a free nature about her, she’s wild and I love every second of it. “
Randolph urged viewers to give Ainsley room to grow, saying, “She’s 17 and she’s growing. I think there’s more to her than the audience sees. Sometimes you realize she can be, not controlling, but she knows how to play her father and her mother. She knows how to get what she wants. She loves her family.”
She concluded: “She’s figuring out who she is, meeting different peers, and going to school. She’s not just a naughty little daughter; she’s a human being. We get to see five percent of Ainsley. Hopefully as the show goes on, we’ll get to see all of her.”
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Randolph knows Landman Audiences were confused by her character Ainsley’s behavior, but she has no regrets about the way she chose to play it.
“It’s hard not to realize that,” she explains. “But I broke away, and the thing is, I got the script. I read it. I had my moments, my ideas.”
However, Randolph doesn’t think Ainsley’s behavior could be confusing. “Some of the things Ainsley said were shocking, and sometimes I thought, ‘I don’t know how I could do this,'” she admits. “I wanted to find the most human version of this character that I could, and I worked very hard to do that.”
Despite the backlash online, Randolph noted that she still stands by the content on the page.
“When I finished my last day on set, my job was done, and then I released it. The show was over,” she continued. “I can’t tell people how to interpret my character, but at least it sparks conversation. I’m very proud of the show we made.”
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