“You want to talk about that piece of s—?”

“That’s what all these f—ing cowboys in that movie looked like.

That rubbed me the wrong way, pal.”

Sam Elliott; Power of the Dog

Sam Elliott makes homophobic comments about ‘The Power of the Dog.'.Emerson Miller/Paramount+; KIRSTY GRIFFIN/NETFLIX

“Where are we in this world today?

“He had two pairs of chaps, a wooly pair and a leather pair.

It was like, what the f—?

Where’s the Western in this Western?”

“For me, it’s not really about gender.

It’s just about sensitivity and appreciation for the balance of needs on a set.

“But on a day-to-day shoot, it doesn’t seem to me as being a different feeling.

Maybe I’ve been lucky and I haven’t worked with sort of hypermasculine directors.”

The Power of the Dogis now streaming on Netflix.

Listen to Elliott’s full appearance onWTF with Marc Maronhere.