“The Power of the Dog” director-producer Jane Campion didn’t mix words when asked what she thought of actor Sam Elliott’s comments about her multi-Oscar-nominated Western film.
“I’m sorry, he was being a little bit of a B-I-T-C-H. I’m sorry to say, he’s not a cowboy; he’s an actor,”She told VarietyOn the red carpet of the Directors Guild Awards. “And the West is a mythic space and there’s a lot of room on the range. And, ya know, I think it’s a little bit sexist.
Elliott, who is a Paramount+ star, was featured earlier in the week. “1883” about a post-Civil War family trekking from Tennessee to Montana to establish the Yellowstone Ranch, had some rather unpleasant things to say about Campion’s film while on the Marc Maron WTF podcast, calling it a “piece of s—” and comparing the show’s cowboys to Chippendale dancers.
“That’s what all these f—ing cowboys in that movie look like,”He said. “They’re all running around in chaps and no shirts. There’s all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the f—ing movie.”
Elliott took Campion further and targeted him directly.
“What the f— does this woman from down there know about the American West?,”Elliott said this in reference to Campion, a New Zealander. “Why the f— did she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana? And say this is the way it was? That f—ing rubbed me the wrong way.”
This is for the record “Power of the Dog”The film received 12 Oscar nominations this year, which is the most. Campion herself is up for three – Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Achievement in Directing and, as one of its producers, Best Motion Picture of the Year.
