'Ransom Canyon' star Josh Duhamel says he'd rather put money into North Dakota after selling Los Angeles home

“I think that when I first met with April Blair, the showrunner, I was at my cabin, literally out there on my tractor doing something, and I was kind of in that headspace already,” he said. “There are a lot of similarities. I don’t have a horse, I don’t have cattle, but I do have a lot of tractors, a lot of ranchy stuff out there, and I think that I sort of live this life, or something closely adjacent to it.”

He added: “Anyway, so I felt like I really sort of understood the love of your land, the legacy, taking care of the people around you, all those things that I think are sort of the same themes as ranch life. And I think that that, they, do sort of inform one another.”

The show is a neo-Western drama on Netflix starring Duhamel and Minka Kelly, and follows the lives of three rival ranching families in the Texas Hill Country.

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In the show, Duhamel plays the owner of Double K Ranch, one of the biggest ranches in the canyon, who in season one is still grieving the loss of his wife and son, and is willing to do anything to protect his family’s land and legacy.

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Season one of the show saw a budding romance between Duhamel and Kelly’s characters, who plays his wife’s best friend who has always had feelings for him.

“Constant sort of balance that we’re trying to strike on the show in that I want to make sure that we keep it rough and sort of gritty and cowboy Western and then there’s forces that want to pull it way into the romance, which I get,” he said. “But it’s finding that balance between the two so it’s still a Western, and it still has that kind of gritty Western vibe.”

“Ransom Canyon” season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.