Skip to main content

Advertisement

Advertisement

Sam Elliott Slams Oscar Front-Runner The Power Of The Dog As A "Piece Of S***"

The 'A Star is Born' star ranted at Jane Campion's 'The Power of the Dog' in a recent episode of the 'WTF with Marc Maron' podcast.

Sam Elliott has called the Netflix Western and Oscar favourite The Power of the Dog a "piece of s***".

Speaking on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Elliott, 77, was not impressed when he saw the Oscar-nominated Netflix drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a closeted ranch owner in the 1920s alongside Kodi Smit McPhee and Kirsten Dunst.

He said: "You wanna talk about that piece of s***. I didn't like it. This is is the guy who has done Westerns forever. It was the evisceration of the American West. Remember those guys from back in the day? They wear bow ties and not much else.[The Chippendales] That’s what all these f****** cowboys in that movie looked like. They’re running around in chaps and no shirts There’s all these allusions of homosexuality throughout the movie."

Elliott, who's starred in Westerns such as Tombstone and the recent Yellowstone prequel series, 1883, then took aim at Benedict Cumberbatch, complaining that the Sherlock star for "never getting out of his chaps" in the movie as he questioned, "where the Western" was in the movie.

He said: "Where’s the Western in this Western? I mean, Cumberbatch never got out of his f****** chaps. He had two pairs of chaps — a woolly pair and a leather pair. And every f****** time he would walk in from somewhere — he never was on a horse, maybe once — he’d walk into the f****** house, storm up the fucking stairs, go lay in his bed in his chaps and play his banjo. It’s like, what the f***!"

The A Star is Born actor went on to blast the film's director Jane Campion for choosing to shoot the Montana-based story in her home country of New Zealand and questioned her suitability to helm the project in the first place.

He added: "What the fuck does this woman from down there know about the American West? Why the f*** did she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana? And say this is the way it was? That f****** rubbed me the wrong way!"— BANG SHOWBIZ

Photos: TPG News/Click Photos

 

Related topics

Hollywood Sam Elliott The Power of the Dog Benedict Cumberbatch Jane Campion

Read more of the latest in

Advertisement

Advertisement

Stay in the know. Anytime. Anywhere.

Subscribe to get daily news updates, insights and must reads delivered straight to your inbox.

By clicking subscribe, I agree for my personal data to be used to send me TODAY newsletters, promotional offers and for research and analysis.