Billy Bob Thornton Says Texas Embraced Taylor Sheridan, Who Now Owns 250,000 Acres
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Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Aug 21
Billy Bob Thornton Says Texas Embraced Taylor Sheridan, Who Now Owns 250,000 Acres
3 articles · Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Aug 21
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Billy Bob Thornton said Hollywood "wasn't nice" to Taylor Sheridan, while Texas and its ranching community accepted him "100 percent" because "he's not phoning it in."
Sheridan spent years struggling in Los Angeles as an actor and said he was homeless twice, sleeping in his car for six months before shifting to screenwriting.
That pivot changed his career: after writing the pilot for Mayor of Kingstown in 2011, Sheridan said every major network and agency wanted meetings.
Success from shows including Yellowstone, Landman and Special Ops: Lioness helped him return to Texas, where he now owns more than 250,000 acres including the Four Sixes and Bosque ranches.
Sheridan says life in Texas now feeds his work, giving him stories and dialogue he did not find in Los Angeles as he builds his TV empire from ranch-based meetings.