# @thewrap on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-12-18T21:08:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Wrap (@thewrap) — https://gondola.cc/thewrap

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#MichelleRandolph is now a veteran of the Taylor Sheridan-verse.

The young actress first appeared in “1923,” the phenomenally popular #Yellowstone prequel that premiered back in 2022. She played Liz Strafford, soon Dutton, the fiancée of Jack Dutton (Darren Mann) and the possible grandmother of John Dutton (Kevin Costner) on the flagship series. (Randolph swears she still doesn’t know.)

She now stars a completely different character for the prolific showrunner as Ainsley, the bratty daughter of Billy Bob Thornton and Ali Larter on “Landman,” the Paramount+ drama based on a Texas Monthly podcast “Boomtown” about the state’s volatile oil business. The characters, besides a certain flintiness, couldn’t be further apart.

Randolph said that she first heard rumblings about “Landman” when they were shooting the first season of “1923” (it returns for Season 2 in February). She had assumed there was no way that she could do “Landman” because, as originally planned, it would be shooting concurrently with the second season of “1923.” “And then one day, I looked down at my phone and Taylor Sheridan was calling me, and this is midway through ‘1923’ coming out, and he’s like, ‘Michelle, there’s a character.’ And I was like, ‘Actually, I know who you’re talking about,’” Randolph said. Sheridan asked her to put herself on tape and get it to him by the next morning — all 18 pages of the script. “I felt immediately like it was mine to lose,” Randolph said. Sheridan called her the next day to tell her she had booked it.

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