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The Landman cast worked real oil rigs as part of a "roughneck camp" to prepare for the hit Paramount+ series

The Landman cast worked real oil rigs as part of a "roughneck camp" to prepare for the hit Amazon Prime Video series

News by Joshua Lapin-Bertone, Contributing writer

Published on Fri Jun 27 2025

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Some actors prepare for their roles by practicing monologues

The Landman cast prepares by working on an oil rig.

Landman is a Paramount+ drama about life as a roughneck in Texas. The show is based on Boomtown, Christian Wallace’ narrative podcast about the Texas oil industry. When it was time to adapt the podcast into a television series, Wallace wanted things to be authentic. To accomplish this, he had the cast learn what it was truly like to be a roughneck.

“We did a roughneck camp,” showrunner Christian Wallace says during a panel at ATX TV Festival. “You know, like in Yellowstone they do a cowboy camp, well instead of horses we have pump jacks. Jacob [Lofland] and our other guys who play rough necks in the show worked alongside real rough necks on real drilling rigs. We had Emilio [Rivera] running the rig at one point.”

“There were so many things I kept looking over at Paramount safety and being like, ‘Are they going to let us do that? Are they going to let him get up there.’ Sure enough, it was safe. We took it very seriously. But they really were doing the work right out there.”

Landman is currently streaming on Paramount+.

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Joshua Lapin-Bertone: Joshua is a pop culture writer specializing in comic book media. His work has appeared on the official DC Comics website, the DC Universe subscription service, HBO Max promotional videos, the Batman Universe fansite, and more. In between traveling around the country to cover various comic conventions, Joshua resides in Florida where he binges superhero television and reads obscure comics from yesteryear.