Lou Diamond Phillips on Gangland, Young Guns 3, and The Chair Company Season 2: Podcast

Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | More Platforms Lou Diamond Phillips has played enough cops, cowboys, and criminals to know that the line between hero and villain is usually drawn in pencil. In Gangland, the La Bamba and Young Guns star takes on Teddy Sharp, a tribal police officer whose questionable methods conceal a fierce devotion to the community he’s sworn to protect. It’s a bruising neo-Western about generational trauma, gang violence, and the complicated business of doing the right thing when nobody agrees on what that means. Speaking with Kyle Meredith, Phillips digs into the film’s Indigenous roots, the surprising resurgence of his cult classics, the proposed Young Guns 3, and the increasingly bizarre world of HBO’s The Chair Company. Listen above or wherever you get your podcasts. Phillips was hooked on Gangland almost immediately, particularly because its screenplay came from a writer with firsthand experience as a tribal police officer. “One of the beauties of this script is that it’s so honest and so authentic,” he explains. As an executive producer, Phillips recruited his longtime Longmire technical adviser Marcus Red Thunder to help shape the ...