And I feel terrible about that.”Įlliott also apologized for the homophobic allusions he made, including comparing the movie's cowboys and ranchers to Chippendale's dancers. 'It struck a chord with me,' Elliott said of the movie during an appearance on a Deadlinepanel promoting 1883. Actor Sam Elliott has apologized for calling The Power of the Dog-Jane Campion's film that earned 12 Academy Award nominations, winning her Best Director- a 'piece of shit western' last month during an appearance on the WTF With Marc Maron podcast, where he also made homophobic allusions and suggested that Campion, who hails from New Zealand, was not equipped to make a film about the American West.
