FORT WORTH, Texas — The stakes increase for Billy Bob Thornton’s Tommy Norris in “Landman” Season 2 — and they also increase for his closest confidants.

Mustafa Speaks’ Boss leads a roughnecking crew, while also providing muscle for Tommy around the Patch. On the flip side, Mark Collie’s Sheriff Walt Joeberg provides a more legal approach when Tommy needs help.

Heading into Season 2, the duo will stick by Tommy’s side in his new role running M-TEX Oil.

“All of that responsibility that Tommy now has also trickles down to Boss and his crew, so we’ll see how that responsibility translates to his team,” Speaks said.

Ahead of Sunday’s premiere, Speaks and Collie spoke with the Star-Telegram about Season 2 storylines and the reception to the show thus far.

[This interview has been edited for clarity and length.]

Q: The first season was a huge hit, one of the most watch season’s of television last year. What do you guys make of that?

Collie: It’s unbelievable. I felt like, as everybody did, this would have a certain amount of great success when we finished and as we were making it. The kind of response that it’s received, I don’t think anybody could have seen that coming.

Speaks: Well, for me, man, it’s just been so humbling to experience the response of the people on the street. For me, that’s all I need. If I’m walking down the street, or I get some responses on Instagram, saying how much my character meant to them, or how authentic it was to people they know, or how it’s helped shape who they are now, or who they want to become. How it shifted their lives in any way, I mean, that’s the most rewarding feeling ever. I’m glad this show, and my participation in this show, has that impact.

Q: Going into Season 2, Tommy is now running the company. How do Boss and Sheriff Joeberg fit into this new dynamic?

Collie: Well, I think, Sheriff Joeberg’s a confidant and a counselor, as well as a lawman for Tommy. That relationship continues, and that’s growing because the chaos is growing and the intensity is growing. The situations are getting a little more dire, especially as the season goes on with the family. It’s an interestingly beautiful dynamic, I think, between those two guys. Two guys who are in a really tough situation. Tommy’s the big head of the new company and all that. When the stakes go up for Tommy, they go up for everybody, including Sheriff Joeberg.

Speaks: I would echo that, when the stakes go up for Tommy, it goes up for Boss. All of that responsibility that Tommy now has also trickles down to Boss and his crew, so we’ll see how that responsibility translates to his team.

Q: Mustafa, speaking of Boss’ crew, Cooper goes off and starts doing his own thing this year. Boss and Cooper have this relationship in Season 1, of them both being on the same crew. How you see the relationship changing between them in Season 2?

Speaks: I just see it evolving even more, because of what happened in Season 1. The level of intensity, level of heart, that they each have for one another. What Boss went through to help Cooper. We’ll see that evolve a little bit more, but more specifically what you’ll see, is how all of that stuff from Season 1 is continuing to affect Boss now and how he has to balance all of these worlds. The worlds of the oilfield, the world of being somewhat of a fixer for Tommy. Then his own personal life, trying to shed his past. We’ll learn a lot more about Boss and how he ticks and why he ticks.

Q: Mark, you co-wrote a few songs for the first season’s soundtrack. Can we expect new music from you this go-around?

Collie: Having an opportunity just to be writing songs for Billy, is a blast. He and I have been friends, and songwriting buddies, for a long time. When I started reading this script and talked to it with Billy, the songs just happened. Fortunately, some of them turned into songs that people wanted to record, and felt would be good for the show. We’re really thankful for that, really thankful for that opportunity that we have. I hope y’all like some of the songs.

Q: You guys have spent the last couple of years making this show in Fort Worth. What’s that experience been like?

Speaks: I enjoy it. I’m a city boy. I’m from Booker T. Washington projects, Jersey City, New Jersey. Man, having to experience Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas. It’s just an experience that I cherish. The people and the art are just so real and authentic. I look forward to traveling there every time I shoot.

Collie: Well, I’m from Tennessee, originally. [My wife] Tammy and I lived in Fort Worth for three or four years working on a different project. Actually I worked for an oil man. Enjoyed that experience. I love Texas. Of course, I always say if it wasn’t for Tennessee then there might not be that many Texans [laughs]. Remember the Alamo?

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