Sam Elliott profusely apologizes to gay community for brutal criticism of ‘Power of the Dog’: ‘I feel terrible’

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Actor Sam Elliott walked back his uncomplimentary comments about the western movie “The Power of the Dog” that infuriated leftists and led to calls for his cancelation over what were deemed to be homophobic comments, bending a knee to the “woke” mob with an apology for his blasphemy.

Throughout his long career, the 77-year-old star has been featured in tough guy and western roles that oozed masculinity, once a surefire winner in the Hollywood of a bygone generation but a major sin in a town where the name John Wayne is treated like a cuss word today.

Elliott, who appeared in such films as “Tombstone” and “Gettysburg,” was unimpressed with the revisionist western with homosexual undercurrents starring Benedict Cumberbatch and directed by Jane Campion, expressing his opinion on a podcast with leftist Marc Maron that “The Power of the Dog” was “a piece of sh*t.”

The macho Elliott also likened some in the movie’s cast to the beefcakes at Chippendales, “those guys in New York who wear bowties and not much else,” he said. “That’s what all these f**king cowboys in that movie look like.”

“They’re all running around in chaps and no shirts. There’s all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the f**king movie,” he added in an expletive-riddled critique that triggered howls of rage on social media.

Sadly, he lacked the fortitude of many of his big-screen characters and bent the knee with a groveling apology to his hysterical critics after “The Power of the Dog” scored a Best Director statue for Campion at an Academy Awards ceremony dominated by Will Smith’s going berserk right before winning his own gold statue.

Elliott’s act of contrition came at an event for celebrity gossip site Deadline Hollywood when he was put on the spot over the heresy uttered on Maron’s WTF podcast.

“First don’t go do a podcast whose call letters are W-T-F,” he said to guffaws from his inquisitor on the panel.

“That movie struck a chord with me…,” pausing and grimacing as he chose his words, “and in trying to tell the guy, W-T-F guy how I felt about the film…I wasn’t very articulate about it, I didn’t articulate it very well,” Elliott said.

He continued, “and I said some things that hurt people…and I feel terrible about that,” painfully pausing again.

“The gay community has been incredible to me my entire career,” he said to the sound of clapping, “and I mean my entire career from before I got started,” as a hoot erupted from the crowd. “When I was in this town, friends on every level, in every job description, up until today with my agent, my dear friend, my agent of a number of years… and I’m sorry that I hurt any of those friends and someone that I loved….and anyone else, by the words that I used.”

“I also told this… what…the..F… podcaster,” referring to Maron, “that I thought Jane Campion was a brilliant director, and I want to apologize to the cast of “The Power of the Dog,” brilliant actors all, and in particular Benedict Cumberbatch, I can only say that I’m sorry and I am, I am,” Elliott said in an eerie scene reminiscent of a struggle session during Mao’s cultural revolution.

Whether Elliott was being sincere in his blistering critique to the “W-T-F guy” is debatable but it’s brutally obvious that anything that is perceived as being even remotely disrespectful to a certain privileged demographic is potentially a career killer in Tinseltown.

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31 thoughts on “Sam Elliott profusely apologizes to gay community for brutal criticism of ‘Power of the Dog’: ‘I feel terrible’

  1. NEVER APOLOGIZE, and never let your staff apologize for you, it solves nothing and gives the parasites something to feed on!!

  2. Sorry to lose another use to be a man. What he said is the truth, and unfortunately, he backed down to mentally disturbed group of people, and he has become a wimp.

  3. Come on Sam. You don’t need these wacko left wing activists to tellyou what to say or think. The more people give in to them the more they believe they are the only voice to be heard.Free speech does not mean free only if you agree with one point of view. Civics 101.

  4. Sam, you were my hero; now you’re a zero. Real cowboys don’t bow to the mob or cancel culture…..

  5. He then whispered to the black guy sitting next to him saying, “hey, I’m only 77 years and guys are living to 100 these days, so I gotta watch out for numero uno, and grovel a little bit for these woke buttercups sitting in this room.

  6. …No Not You Sam:( guess the rest of 1883 is A No Go. John Wayne is turning in his grave

  7. Maybe Sodom and Gomorrah sound good to him ! Our country is on that same path , and God will have his day , and that won’t be good . Enjoy your life now because it’s your last .

  8. Stop apologizing. People can dance to any tune they want. You do not have to be brow beaten because you do not agree. You do realize only 3% of USA population is gay right. But we fall over ourselves to appease. Gay not gay, don’t give a damn.

  9. It is shame that people are not permitted to express their opinions any longer. Elliot obviously thinks the movie sucks, the approach sucks and that woke hollywood is ruining a genre he loves. Nothing homophobic about that

  10. I can’t believe he caved! So incredibly disappointed and angry. The left owns him now! He can never say what he wants. I thought he was a tough cowboy. Now he’s like Lil Nas X! 🤦🏼‍♀️

    1. Very disappointing to learn that Sam has no ballz. I’ll never watch his films again. He’s a girlie-man at heart.

  11. Sad seeing Sam grovel. I don’t think Clint would have apologized for expressing an opinion

  12. if he’s trying to destroy his brand, this mealymouthed apology for being truthful is a great way to do it.

  13. Why on earth, Sam Elliott, do you feel the need to apologise to anybody? I don’t feel the need to apologise to anyone for how I think and feel and right now I’m disgusted by you and your apology. Are you now going to apologise to us?

  14. I liked Sam Elliott. His westerns were good and other movies like roadhouse. Now as I watched a groveling wimp of an Actor/pretender practically cry for telling the truth, the magic is gone. I will not watch him ever again. Why don’t people just stand up to these amoral lunatics and tell them to f**k off. Go screw yourselves you woke besterds.

  15. Let’s be clear about something: in spite of what the MSM would like you to believe, the “gay community” comprises about 3% of the total population, and even that number is probably high.

    They are a tiny, deviant, disgusting little sub-set of humanity that deserves no respect and no sympathy for their horrible life choices.

    Sam Elliott has lost all of my respect for groveling to these filthy animals.

  16. F*** ’em, Sam. They’d enjoy that. You didn’t articulate the fact that you are and have been real westerns and not some show where the actors have to wear chaos to prove it’s a so-called “Western”. Westerns have been the ever present representation of strong men and women forging a civilization out of a wilderness. So along comes the woke generation desecrating statues and histories with their false claims, so what better to attack and attempt to destroy than the idea of the strong man , hard working and hard fighting. Let’s make him that, but then we’ll make him gay. That ought to propagate the idea that there were gays in the old West and they were great people and, therefore, gays are good and gays are great and gays should be the wave of the future and that future should not try to mainly express the moral concepts of good and bad and the triumph of good, how hard people fought to do the right thing, but we now need to express how important it is to be gay in the old west. Take a bow, gays.

  17. How can you trust a guy who doesn’t stand by his words. I can understand
    saying “I’m sorry you were offended, but my opinion remains.” At least that’s
    honest.
    Sounds like I won’t be seeing that flick. Haven’t been to a lot of movies in
    the last 20 years as so many of them are more about making a “Statement”
    than entertaining the audience.

  18. A ONCE GREAT ACTOR who is now nothing more than ANOTHER groveling POS !! He has enough money by this stage of the game to STAND BY HIS OPINION !! Of course he IS an “actor” and I guess his no nonsense “tough guy” persona was nothing more than an ACT !! DISGUSTING !

  19. Elliott just lost my respect. He called a spade a spade and now crouches like a coward. Disgusting cop out.

  20. Sorry LLBuckman33. That was supposed to be a like but the damn thing does not work. I tapped + several times but all it would do is give me names and then -. This new format sucks the big one!😡

  21. For the first time, I am forced to associate the word ‘coward’ with Sam Elliot. What a shame.

  22. Well damn, it looks like his “career may be over anyways. Should have made enough money to be able to ignore all the crap but bends the knee. Disgusting!🤨

  23. It’s time to quit kneeling to the blue haired whales of the woke community. Besides, they are busy grooming our kids into the LGBTQ+ community.

  24. Sounds to me like hes being blackmailed with his career at stake into being a peacemaker. Its a sad state of affairs all the way around. P.S. Personally , Im a John Wayne fan all the way. Id tell them to kiss my azz turn and walk away. Im sure he can find work representing Remington , Henry or Colt . I also like the macho men movies as long as they stick to traditional rolls. For my taste, theres no room for the Humpback Valley in them at all.

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