Thomas "T.L." Norris

Thomas "T.L." Norris is the elder statesman of the family at the center of Landman's West Texas oil business — a man who has spent a lifetime in the field and expects the world to run on the same hard, plainspoken terms he does. He watches, weighs, and speaks only when it matters.

Sam Elliott brings decades of lived-in authority to a role built for exactly that voice and that weathered stillness. The writing gives him few words and lets his presence do the rest, so every line lands with the weight of someone who has already seen how these stories usually end.