Sam Elliott and Billy Bob Thornton play father and son on Taylor Sheridan‘s hit series Landman — but what is their real-life age difference?

While season 2 of Paramount+’s Landman introduced Tommy’s (Thornton) father, T. L. (Elliott), off screen Elliott, 81, and Thornton, 70, are just 11 years apart. Thornton weighed in on their small age gap as Landman explored the complicated family dynamic.

“You can look through movie history, and fathers or mothers have been close in age [to their children],” he told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month. “It’s just a thing you do because you’re actors portraying someone.”

Thornton urged viewers to suspend their disbelief.

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