NEW YORK — With her Academy Award Best Actress nomination this year for “The Substance,” Demi Moore has seen her social media profile rise and her role in the Paramount+ Taylor Sheridan “Landman” series expand.

As Series 2 begins tonight, Moore’s Cami Miller is freshly widowed with the death of her husband Monty Miller (Jon Hamm), the owner of the mighty M-Tex Oil. Now she must make moves she never contemplated.

“Cami is facing a challenge that I’m grateful to say that I have not experienced,” Moore, 63, began.

“Which is life after the loss of a partner, the loss of a relationship that is really the foundation of her entire existence.

“From the outside, I’ve always thought where I connect with her is on the idea of feeling at times that I’ve been underestimated. Because I think Cami is underestimated. She’s stepping into a world she doesn’t know except from the peripheral.

“She has the strength and resilience, which I also really identify with, to step in and take on the challenge. No matter what the obstacles.”

That means Cami must work with Billy Bob Thornton’s Tommy Norris.

“There’s such history. They all started together.  In a sense, he’s really her only anchor.  A port in the storm as it were.

“And just on a personal note,” she added, “it’s been so much fun to work with Billy Bob.”

In a series actors often are surprised at the turns and twists the writers dream up for each season.  It’s different than signing on for a film where whatever happens will be expected.

Does she see this return to surprise plotting as completing a circle since she began on the daytime soap “General Hospital”?

“There’s no comparison in the writing!” she said with Pilaf, her micro chihuahua on her lap, nearly laughing at the notion that the prize-winning Sheridan’s layered texts could ever be in the same universe.

“The wonderful thing in life is getting comfortable with not knowing what the next chapter is. But being present to what unfolds.

“For me, what’s important is that I keep challenging myself. Keep stepping out to do things that push me out of my comfort zone and hopefully, with people that also help elevate me, that help me to grow not just professionally but also personally.

“For me doing this series is a whole new world.  It’s a whole new way of working. I’ve never really done something where you begin and you actually don’t know where it’s going to end up.

“But it’s wonderful to be playing a woman that I can find similarities but that is also very, very different from me.”