Sam Elliott spurns 'Yellowstone,' despite starring in prequel
wonderwall.comOscar-nominated western "The Power of the Dog," the celebrated actor has shown his contempt for "Yellowstone" — this, despite starring in the Paramount's show's prequel, "1883."Sam, 77, said the show feels too much like a soap opera."I'm not a 'Yellowstone' fan," he said on Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast. "I don't watch 'Yellowstone.' I love [series star Kevin] Costner.
There are a lot of good people on the cast, a few of them I've worked with before. Nothing against any of them, but it's just too much like f ——'Dallas' or something for me."The comments come after Sam made headlines for slamming "The Power of the Dog," calling it a "piece of s—." He also compared the male stars to Chippendales dancers because they "wear bowties and not much else.""They're all running around in chaps and no shirts.
There's all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the f—— movie," he said. "Where's the Western in this Western?""Dog" Director Jane Campion, though, fired back, essentially calling Sam a fraud. "He's not a cowboy either, he's an actor — he grew up in Sacramento and was educated in Oregon . . .
We're dealing in a fictional world, we're dealing in a mythic universe," she told Variety. "The West is a myth, it doesn't exist — Annie Proulx said that — and there's a lot of room on the range to explore that myth.
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