CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

The Daily Beast reports:

Sam Elliott didn’t hold back his anger—or blatant homophobia—for Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. In an interview for Marc Maron’s “WTF Podcast,” Elliott decried the Western as “a piece of shit” and compared the male characters to Chippendale dancers.

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

Maron then pointed out that’s “what the movie’s about,” as the film’s main character, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, is a closeted gay man.

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Sam Elliott didn’t hold back his anger—or blatant homophobia—for Jane Campion’s ‘The Power of the Dog’: “They’re all running around in chaps and no shirts. There’s all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the f–king movie.” https://t.co/U9I14o64mk

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 1, 2022

I mean most movies about the American West don’t know anything about the American West including the ones Sam Elliott has been a part of. They erase the presence of anyone who isn’t white or male when the west was mostly built by Indigenous, Black, Mexican & Chinese people. https://t.co/xeIqL13VI3

— Tami Sawyer (@tamisawyer) March 1, 2022