SAM ELLIOTT SCOLDS POWER OF THE DOG

The world of podcasts seems to bring so much controversy as of late. Just a minute ago Joe Rogan was in some heat. The podcaster was criticized for spreading disinformation about COVID-19 on his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience”. This caused musicians such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell to pull an ultimatum on Spotify. They wanted Joe Rogan cancelled otherwise they would pull their music from the now globally popular music streaming app. And so those musicians did. Sam Elliott is now up to bat.

Veteran actor Sam Elliott is in some heat for his critical and berating remarks about Jane Campion‘s film Power of the Dog. The film is likely to take home the Oscar for Best Picture this year from critics. On the WTF Podcast with Marc Maron, Sam Elliot had much to say about the film after first calling it a “Piece of S–t.”

He took issue with Benedict Cumberbatch‘s character of Phil Burbank who is a closeted homosexual. He said of Campion that there is now way she would understand the motivations of an American cowboy being from New Zealand.

Having been a fan of her previous work, Sam Elliott still says, “What the f–k does this woman from down there know about the American West?” he exclaimed, before discussing the film location, “And why in the f–k did she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana? And say this is the way it was? That f–king rubbed me the wrong way, pal.”

He was also angered by a review by Manohla Dargis in the New York Times calling the Power of the Dog, “a great American story and a dazzling evisceration of one of the country’s foundational myths.”

He also called the cowboys in this film “Chippendales”

“That’s what all these f— cowboys in that movie looked like. They’re all running around in chaps and no shirts. There’s all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the f— movie,” Elliott said.

The Yellowstone star also explains that he recently shot in Texas where there are real cowboys with real families. He mentions that they have no choice but to be a cowboy and there is no myth to that.

After witnessing this first hand in the Lone Star State and having read that review in the New York Times, Elliot says, “I thought, what the f—? Where are we in this world today?”