Singer, songwriter, and actor Ryan Bingham, who won an Oscar for Best Original Song and who starred as Walker in Yellowstone, is about to get doused in chocolate syrup on a West Texas ranch. He’s filming an homage to one of the most indelible moments from the 1956 classic Giant: Jett Rink, a lowly ranch hand played by James Dean, suddenly strikes oil. As the liquid gold rains down on him, it becomes clear that his whole life is about to change.The chocolate is subbing for oil, but no one is certain it will work. Bingham and the film crew are on Kerr Mitchell Ranch, not far from where another iconic Texas movie, There Will Be Blood, was filmed. To mimic that sweet Texas crude,…
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