{"id":261577,"date":"2026-09-06T07:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/mandy-moore-says-her-the-land-character-is-an-absolute-b-as-she-teases-new-series\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:03:11","slug":"mandy-moore-says-her-the-land-character-is-an-absolute-b-as-she-teases-new-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/mandy-moore-says-her-the-land-character-is-an-absolute-b-as-she-teases-new-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandy Moore Says Her \u2018The Land\u2019 Character Is an \u2018Absolute B-\u2018 as She Teases New Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/tags\/mandy-moore\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Mandy Moore<\/strong><\/a> is dishing on her upcoming new series, <strong><em>The Land<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 42-year-old actress and singer will star in the Hulu show, reuniting her with the <em>This Is Us<\/em> creator, <strong>Dan Fogelman<\/strong>, who also created the forthcoming football drama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a new interview, <strong>Mandy<\/strong> teased what to expect from the upcoming series and her character. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mandy-moore-dan-fogelman.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mandy-moore-dan-fogelman-788x889.jpg\" alt=\"Mandy Moore and Dan Fogelman speak on stage at the 2017 Summer TCA Tour\" class=\"wp-image-2277724\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"h-mandy-moore-talks-upcoming-new-show-the-land\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mandy Moore talks upcoming new show <em>The Land<\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you love football, if you love family drama, it\u2019s like <em>Friday Night Lights<\/em> and <em>Succession<\/em> all kind of rolled into one,\u201d <strong>Mandy<\/strong> told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/columns\/mandy-moore-hilary-duff-dan-fogelman-hulu-series-the-land-1236851086\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/columns\/mandy-moore-hilary-duff-dan-fogelman-hulu-series-the-land-1236851086\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to working on the show, <strong>Mandy<\/strong> wasn&#8217;t a big football fan, and says they all had to do &#8220;crash courses&#8221; on the sport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I still feel like I have so much to learn. I had some fantastic meetings with some incredible women that are in similar roles at different organizations at the NFL. I\u2019ve been able to pick their brains a little bit,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I joked I felt like <a href=\"\/tags\/taylor-swift\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a>, where I was like, \u2018Oh, I got to learn all about this.\u2019 I mean, it\u2019s different when your boyfriend-slash-husband is like a player, but I truly knew nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for her character, the actress teased she&#8217;s &#8220;an absolute b****.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I get to play this bada**, a woman in a man\u2019s world who her entire life she\u2019s been gunning for this one job and will do absolutely anything and breathes this air of sort of desperation and entitlement,&#8221; <strong>Mandy<\/strong> said. &#8220;It\u2019s so fun to play someone like so wholly different from who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <em>The Land<\/em>, <strong>Mandy<\/strong> will play Lauren, the daughter of NFL team owner Hank Durkin (<strong>William H Macy<\/strong>) and his heir apparent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The series is described as \u201ca sprawling drama\u201d with a \u201cgenerational family component.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you missed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/18\/7-stars-cast-in-paradise-creator-dan-fogelmans-new-hulu-nfl-series-including-a-this-is-us-reunion\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/18\/7-stars-cast-in-paradise-creator-dan-fogelmans-new-hulu-nfl-series-including-a-this-is-us-reunion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">find out who else is starring in the show<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/09\/06\/mandy-moore-says-her-the-land-character-is-an-absolute-b-as-she-teases-new-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mandy Moore Says Her \u2018The Land\u2019 Character Is an \u2018Absolute B-&#8216; as She Teases New Series<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News, Entertainment News &amp; Photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/09\/06\/mandy-moore-says-her-the-land-character-is-an-absolute-b-as-she-teases-new-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Mandy Moore is dishing on her upcoming new series, The Land! The 42-year-old actress and singer will star in the Hulu show, reuniting her with the This Is Us creator, Dan Fogelman, who also created the forthcoming football drama. In a new interview, Mandy teased what to expect from the upcoming series and her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}