It’s where they host rodeos and other events. Everyone skis with a helmet and everyone in a rodeo wears helmets. Just like, what are the concerns when a family is ranching or farming? What are the pressures and the stresses? I went to school on that.ĭEADLINE I was actually pleased to see that everyone was wearing helmets while riding those bucking bulls.ĬOOPER-LANDSMAN Yes, they do. But at the end of the day, what I really needed to learn is how a ranch works, not how rodeo works. We weren’t thinking about other shows and having to avoid comparisons.ĭEADLINE Did you have to go to school on the whole rodeo world?ĬOOPER-LANDSMAN A little bit. The credit goes to Becky and Chris and the cast.

That happened in the Yellowstone pilot.ĬOOPER-LANDSMAN I hate to say this but…I’ve been doing this for 20 years, and usually somebody dies in a teaser. It just was this beautiful setting and a world that Becky really knew so well.ĭEADLINE But…you killed off a son in the premiere. And to be honest, I hadn’t even watched Yellowstone, so I did not even think about that. For me, it was just this beautiful ranch setting and this family going through the stuff that family goes through. All I knew when I read it was that I could be a good contributor because this was just a great family. Did you have any worries about that in the beginning?ĬOOPER-LANDSMAN Not at all. Once we had the pickup, we were all excited to keep going.ĭEADLINE The comparisons to Yellowstone are inevitable. We were assembled because we hadn’t gotten the green light yet. They brought me on just before we started the mini-room, so when I came on, we had a pilot script and did the casting and everything together.ĭEADLINE Oh, you said the dreaded phrase, the mini-room.ĬOOPER-LANDSMAN It was the most delightful mini room, though! There was maybe like six of us on Zoom. SHERRI COOPER-LANDSMAN I was brought aboard in March of last year. Here, Cooper-Landsman breaks down the premiere episode and what fans can expect from the series that’s shot entirely in Calgary, Alberta.ĭEADLINE You were brought in after the show was pitched. Tiera Skovbye plays Austin’s wife, Missy.

Ride, which is co-produced by Endeavor-backed Blink49 Studios and Seven24 Films, in partnership with Bell Media for CTV Drama Channel in Canada, stars Nancy Travis as matriarch Isabel Murray and Beau Mirchoff ( Good Trouble), Jake Foy ( Designated Survivor) and Marcus Rosner ( Arrow) as her sons Cash, Tuff and Austin.

Not That Complicated by Isabel Murray