“The Power Of The Dog” may be leading the Academy Award nominations but that doesn’t mean Sam Elliott likes it. The moustachioed “A Star Is Born” actor had some harsh words for Jane Campion’s film about Texan ranchers during an appearance on Marc Maron’s “WTF Podcast”.
The actor, who has built a career in the western genre, called the film “a piece of s***.” “You didn’t like that one?” Maron asks the actor who is currently starring in the “Yellowstone” spinoff “1883”. READ MORE: ‘The Power Of The Dog’ Leads Oscar Nominations, Kristen Stewart Earns First Nomination “F***, no.
Why? I’ll tell you why I didn’t like it anyway,” Elliott explains, not mincing words. “I looked at when I was down there in Texas doing ‘1883’ and what really brought it home to me the other day when I said, ‘Do you want to f***ing talk about it?’ There was a f***ing full-page ad out in the LA Times and there was a review, not a review, but a clip, and it talked about the ‘evisceration of the American myth.’ And I thought, ‘What the f***?
What the f***? This is the guy that’s done westerns forever. The evisceration of the American West? They made it look like – what are all those dancers that those guys in New York who wear bow ties and not much else.
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