Interview:
Thomas Haden Church,
"The Accidental Texan"
Based on the 1999 novel by Cole Thompson, and shot in Austin and Bartlett, the Texas oil industry dramedy The Accidental Texan finds a struggling young actor offered the role of lifetime by a veteran driller in desperate need of locating an untapped oil reserve. Fired after an on-set incident, Erwin Vandeveer (Rudy Pankow) breaks down in the small Texas town of Buffalo Gap while en route from Louisiana to California. While waiting for his car to be repaired, Erwin crosses paths with oil driller Merle Luskey (Thomas Haden Church). Merle recruits Erwin to play his “landman” in a bid to prevent a bank from calling in his loan. While Erwin may not know anything about the oil industry, the time he spent studying business at Harvard proves so beneficial to Merle that he persuades Erwin to remain his “front man” for another month as he searches in and around Buffalo Gap for oil. The Accidental Texan costars Carrie-Anne Moss as local diner owner and Merle’s love interest Faye and Bruce Dern as a farmer whose land may or may not contain an oil reserve. Directed by Mark Lambert Bristol, and formerly titled Chocolate Lizards, The Accidental Texan opened March 8 in theaters. The Texas-raised Thomas Haden Church, who owns a ranch near Kerrville, previously starred in Tombstone, Sideways, Idiocracy, Spider-Man 3, All About Steve, Easy A, Killer Joe, Heaven is for Real, and The Peanut Butter Falcon. He will next be seen in chapters 3 and 4 of the Kevin Costner-directed Horizon: An American Saga.
Aired: March 6, 2024. Web site: https://roadsideattractions.com/filmography/accidentaltexan/ |
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