Jon Hamm Reveals the Text His Sister Sent Him After Seeing the 'Wreckage' inLandman's Season 1 Finale

Mar. 15, 2025

Jon Hamm as Monty Miller in ‘Landman’.Photo:Emerson Miller/Paramount+

Emerson Miller/Paramount+

Jon Hammisn’t sure if he’s ever died onscreen, but his sister definitely doesn’t think he has.

Admitting he “can’t remember” if a character he’s played has died onscreen before, Hamm toldThe Hollywood Reporter, “My sister texted me and she said, ‘I can’t believe I had to watch you die on screen.’ And I was like, ‘Haven’t you seen that before?’ And she was like, ‘No!'”

TheMorning Showactor said that filming his final moments as Monty was “particularly difficult because you’re on your way out, basically, and that’s not fun,” but the “caliber of actors” he was working with — namelyDemi Moore, who played his wife Cami Miller, andBilly Bob Thornton, who played his righthand man, Tommy Norris — made it “truly outstanding.”

“You go, ‘This is a spectacular group of people,’ and I just can’t imagine it being any more exciting or fun.”

Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris and Jon Hamm as Monty Miller in ‘Landman’.Emerson Miller/Paramount+

Hamm admittedly doesn’t have the clearest memory of what his last day on set actually looked like, since it was close to a year ago now, but said that his time onLandmanin general was “so condensed.”

“I remember not even meeting Billy Bob until three or four weeks into my shooting schedule. Our time together was brief, but it was certainly fun.”

Hamm’s “other commitments” meant he doesn’t have the ability to “be a series regular on another show,” which adds further context to his character’s death in the season 1 finale. But he told the outlet he couldn’t pass up “the ability to work with Taylor [Sheridan] and Billy Bob [Thornton].”

“Those are guys whose careers I’ve been really paying attention to. They’re just working at the top of their game.”

Looking ahead to season 2, though, he knows there’s “going to be a lot of wreckage to clean up,” particularly for Cami (Moore).

“I think she’s probably pretty pissed that her husband is gone and that her family is devastated. Speaking from experience, those are difficult things to come back from. It’s not a fun thing to lose a parent or to lose somebody close to you.”

Jon Hamm as Monty Miller and Demi Moore as Cami Miller in ‘Landman’.Emerson Miller/Paramount

Emerson Miller/Paramount

In March, Hamm told PEOPLE about his role inLandmanashe teased a “lot of back and forth [and] a lot of intrigue” in the series.

“It’s Taylor Sheridan and obviously it’s very well written. It’s very well-researched. It’s a story very well told, and I think it’s an interesting take on what happens when it comes to how we get the stuff that makes our cars and our lives and our planes and everything in our modern world go.”

He also gushed about his costars then, too. “It’s got Billy Bob Thornton and Demi Moore, so it’s a tremendous cast and it’s been super fun to work on. And obviously, Taylor Sheridan’s in charge of everything, so it’s a great project.”

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Season 1 ofLandmancan be streamed in full on Paramount+.

source: people.com