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‘Power of the Dog’ Director Jane Campion, Movie’s Cast Slam Sam Elliott’s Criticism: ‘A Little Bit Sexist’

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After Sam Elliott made headlines over his controversial comments about the Oscar-nominated The Power of the Dog, the film’s creative team swiftly came to the project’s defense.“I’m sorry, he was being a little bit of a B-I-T-C-H,” director Jane Campion told Variety on Saturday, March 12. “I’m sorry to say it but he’s not a cowboy, he’s an actor.”Campion, who won the impressive Theatrical Feature Film award at the Saturday’s DGA Awards, told the outlet: “The West is a mythic space and there’s a lot of room on the range.

I think it’s a little bit sexist because think about the number of amazing Westerns that were made by Sergio Leone.”The Star Is Born actor, 77, previously slammed the film’s portrayal of cowboys last month.“They’re running around in chaps and no shirts.

There’s all these allusions of homosexuality throughout the movie,” Elliott said during the February 28 episode of Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast, calling the actors Chippendale dancers who “wear bow ties and not much else” and the film a “piece of s—t” as a whole.“[Benedict] Cumberbatch never got out of his f–king chaps.

He had two pairs of chaps: a woolly pair and a leather pair,” Elliott said during the podcast appearance, referring to the Doctor Strange actor, 45, who played one of the lead roles in the film. “Every f–king time he would walk in from somewhere — he never was on a horse, maybe once — he’d walk into the f–king house, storm up the f–king stairs, go lay in his bed in his chaps, and play his banjo.

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