‘Power of the Dog’ director roasts Sam Elliott: ‘He’s not a cowboy, he’s an actor’

nypost.com:

director Jane Campion didn’t mince her words while addressing the 77-year-old Western icon’s “sexist” criticism of her 12-time Oscar-nominated flick last week.

The 2022 best director Oscar nominee gave her rebuttal during an interview with Variety at the Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday night.“I’m sorry, he was being a little bit of a B-I-T-C-H,” Campion, 67, told the magazine before the ceremony. “He’s not a cowboy; he’s an actor.”The “Bright Star” director, who won best director BAFTA Sunday for “Dog,” added, “The West is a mythic space and there’s a lot of room on the range.

I think it’s a little bit sexist.”Campion was referring to Elliott’s controversial appearance on Marc Maron’s “WTF Podcast” two weeks ago, in which he’d called her opus a “piece of s–t.” The “Roadhouse” actor also analogized the characters to Chippendales dancers “who wear bowties and not much else.”During his bizarre tirade, the “Tombstone” star had singled out Campion, claiming that despite being a “brilliant director,” the New Zealand-born auteur was unfit to direct a Western set in Montana in the early 20th century.“I love her previous work, but what the f – – k does this woman from down there, New Zealand, know about the American West?” Elliott ranted, further slamming her decision to film the Western in her motherland.Campion wasn’t the only member of the “Dog” posse to respond to Sam Elliott’s comments.