NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Paulina Chavez says her character Ariana may have endured a "woman's worst nightmare" in Sunday's episode of Landman, but the cast and crew made her feel safe while filming the harrowing scene.
The Taylor Sheridan-produced, Paramount+ western showed a disgruntled patron attempting to rape Ariana, while she was taking a break behind the Texas bar where she works as a waitress.
Ariana valiantly fights him off until her fiance Cooper (Jacob Lofland) arrives and beats up the guy.
"Everybody was so respectful on set and wanting to make sure that we were very comfortable. Jacob and I very much love to keep it as light-hearted as possible," Chavez, 23, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
"We have a whole season under our belt of just heartache and Ariana having a lot of emotional moments," she said. "There was a really cool aspect to it of us going to stunt rehearsal and mapping out exactly what Taylor wanted. All the punches that we needed to throw, the tackle, everything was very calculated and that was genuinely so fun."
