Jesse Plemons, star of The Power of the Dog, said veteran actor Sam Elliott’s “homophobic” criticism of the film “made me laugh” before adding that “not everyone has to like it.”
The 33-year-old Oscar nominee also told The Hollywood Reporter that people are entitled to their own opinions as they walk the red carpet ahead of Friday’s screening of his upcoming film A Windfall.
“I know there are different layers to it,” he said. – Not everyone should like it, I will say so. Good.’
Plemons is the latest actor from the critically acclaimed film to speak out on Elliott’s comments about the film’s themes of masculinity and sexuality, which he made less than two weeks ago on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast.
“They made it look like all these dancers, these guys in New York who wear bow ties and nothing else?” Elliott, 77, said.
“This is what all those damn cowboys looked like in that movie. They all run around in pants and no shirts. This fucking movie has all these hints of homosexuality.”
Jesse Plemons at the Windfall LA Special Screening Friday in West Hollywood, CA.
Pictured: Sam Elliott as Shea from the original Paramount+ series, 1883.
Jesse Plemons in a scene from the popular Netflix series Power of the Dog.
In an interview at the center of the controversy, Elliot followed up on the suitability of the film’s director Jane Campion, asking how “a woman from there [New Zealand] can “know about the American West”.
Elliott added that he was also angry that Benedict Cumberbatch’s character, who plays the lead, never took off his stockings.
“Every fucking time he came from somewhere – he’s never been on a horse – he’d walk into that fucking house, storm the fucking stairs, go get into his bed, wear his pants, and play the banjo.
Elliott, however, called director Jane Campion a “brilliant” director and said he simply disagreed with her directing in Dog Power.
Campion, 67, said she “encouraged” the homosexual fetishes and “devices” featured in the film when asked if she “ever worried about overdoing it.”
“Too much leather, ropes and guys? I encouraged it,” she told The Guardian in an interview published March 4. him under the bed.
Dog Power follows Cumberbatch’s character Phil Burbank, a formidable rancher whose brother (Plemons) unexpectedly marries a woman (Kirsten Dunst) who moves into their ranch with her son (Cody Smith-McPhee).
The film centers on Burbank’s rage at his repressed feelings as he tortures his new daughter-in-law and her son at their Montana ranch until he learns to love his family. It was filmed in New Zealand because Campion wanted to film it closer to her home country.
The film leads all contenders with 12 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (Campion) and Best Actor (Cumberbatch).
Sam Elliott at the World Premiere of “1883” at the Encore Beach Club at Encore Las Vegas on December 11, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jesse Plemons as George Burbank and Kirsten Dunst as Rose Gordon in Dog Power
In response to Elliot’s comments, Cumberbatch hit back and called the comments “very weird”.
Cumberbatch, 45, who played the role of a repressed gay cowboy in the film, called Elliott’s comments “a very strange reaction” to the film and noted that there is still “massive intolerance towards homosexuality” in the world.
“I’m trying very hard not to say anything about a very strange reaction that happened on a radio podcast the other day,” Cumberbatch said during Friday’s BAFTA screenings.
Benedict Cumberbatch arriving at the AFI Awards Dinner on Friday, March 11, 2022 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
Oscar-nominated Benedict Cumberbatch plays a closeted gay man. Elliott said that Cumberbatch spent too much time in the film shirtless and wearing caps.
“Not wanting to stir up the ashes of that […] someone really took offense – I didn’t hear it, so it’s unfair of me to comment in detail – that the West is portrayed in this way, ”continued Cumberbatch.
Elliot said his main grudge was that the character Phil Burbank was a closeted gay man and that the film was overly critical of West’s male portrayal.
Meanwhile, this week Elliott was spotted in public for the first time since he caused outrage by breaking into an Oscar-nominated cowboy film.
The dry actor sarcastically stated that he knew nothing about the film when approached him while running errands on Wednesday.
‘What are you talking about?’ Sam said when asked what he thought of the film. “I don’t know anything about it.
spotted Sam Elliott running errands for the first time since he criticized the movie Power of the Dog.
‘What are you talking about?’ Sam said when asked what he thought of the film. “I don’t know anything about it”