A version of this interview with Lou Diamond Phillips first appeared in the print edition of TheWrap Magazine’s Fall TV Issue.
Lou Diamond Phillips plays Henry Standing Bear, a Cheyenne who is the best friend of Sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor), in “Longmire,” Netflix’s adaptation of Craig Johnson’s mystery novels.
What can you tell us about the new season?
We ended Season 4 on a cliffhanger, and we pick up Season 5 literally 10 minutes after that season ended. A lot of very, very interesting things happen, and a lot of threads we started last season are going to continue, especially for Henry. It’s not only a very interesting season with a lot of twists and turns, but it’s very satisfying.
There are rumors that this is the final season.
You know, the internet is so bizarre. Something starts, and then it’s repeated and somebody retweets it… No, Season 5 is not the final season.
The plug has not been pulled. On the contrary, Netflix has been nothing but happy with us.
Can “Longmire” go on forever?
Potentially, it could. Whereas something like “Breaking Bad” had to have a resolution at some point, the “Longmire” novels just keep coming.
So we could probably continue to go on indefinitely, like “Gunsmoke” or “Bonanza,” if the powers that be thought we were successful enough.
Here’s a question that came in from Twitter: “Who gets to be the sexy moo cow?”
[Laughs] That was a tweet that kind of took on a life of its own. Tony Tost wrote a script and wrote a character description that this character was “prancing around like a sexy moo cow.” I had hope against hope that it was me. [In a plaintive, seductive voice:] Mooooo, mooooo. I thought, that’s LDP in a nutshell, really.
Sadly enough, it was not Henry Standing Bear but another character who pranced around like a sexy moo cow.
Season 5 of “Longmire” begins streaming Sept. 23 on Netflix.
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