Actor Sam Elliott has apologized for calling The Power of the Dog—Jane Campion’s film that earned 12 Academy Award nominations, winning her Best Director—a “piece of shit western” last month during an appearance on the WTF With Marc Maron podcast, where he also made homophobic allusions and suggested that Campion, who hails from New Zealand,…
Any fan of Yellowstone knows that you shouldn’t cross the Duttons, but Sam Elliott isn’t a fan so perhaps he can be forgiven for his recent risk taking. In his recent interview on WFT with Marc Maron—yes the one where the 1883 actor opened up about not being a fan of The Power of the…
When it comes to the 2022 Oscar season, Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog is a widely-assumed frontrunner—but it’s certainly not everyone’s favorite. Specifically, don’t expect 1883 star and American western mainstay Sam Elliott to be casting his vote in the film’s direction. In a recent episode of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron,…
Sam Elliott can’t help but look like a cowboy. Even over Zoom, dressed in a decidedly not ranch appropriate black henley, he still has that gritty gravitas that immediately calls to mind epics like Tombstone or The Quick and the Dead. It’s that distinct essence of a Western star; his calling card. So when Taylor…
