Sam Elliott Has No Patience for Gay Cowboys

Warning about language

Sam Elliott has decided to retire from acting. At least, he doesn’t seem to want to work in Hollywood anymore. If he did, he wouldn’t have uncorked a glorious rant about a “piece of shit” Oscar-nominated movie and its LGBT sacred cow(boys).

According to Variety, the iconic horse opera star doesn’t have much use for “Power of the Dog” and the “allusions of homosexuality throughout the movie.” Elliott was on a podcast when he went off on the movie, comparing the actors to Chippendale dancers. “That’s what all these fucking cowboys in that movie looked like,” Elliott said. “They’re running around in chaps and no shirts.”

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“Where’s the Western in this Western?” Elliott asked. “I mean, [lead actor Benedict]Cumberbatch didn’t get out of his ficking chaps. He had two pairs of chaps — a wooly pair and a leather pair. And every fucking time he would walk in from somewhere — he never was on a horse, maybe once — he’d walk into the fucking house, storm up the fucking stairs, go lay in his bed in his chaps and play his banjo. It’s like, what the fuck?”

(Having seen the film, that’s a pretty accurate description. Cumberbatch is a closeted gay rancher in what’s supposed to be 1920s Montana. It really is a piece of  … what he said.)

I just came from Texas where I was hanging out with families — not men — but families. There were many generations of cowboy families. That was a fucking sight! [movie], I thought, ‘What the fuck? What are our current positions in the world?’”

That’s not all there is. As if disparaging the gay theme weren’t bad enough, he criticized Jane Campion, the movie’s female director:

How much do these women from the American West know? She made this movie in New Zealand, and called it Montana. Say this was the truth. This fucking got me in the wrong direction.

It was clear that Elliott suffered from saddle sores throughout the entire film. We will see how Hollywood reacts to Sam. He rode on the same horse.