The Oscar-nominated star of Jane Campion’s Western challenged Sam Elliott’s idea that all cowboys fit into an ‘archetypal mold of masculinity.’
Without directly invoking Sam Elliott’s name, Benedict Cumberbatch talked about the ways that the veteran actor underscored “toxic masculinity” and “intolerance” when he criticized “The Power of the Dog” for featuring a main character who is a Montana cowboy and closeted gay man.
The 77-year-old actor, who has starred in a number of Western-themed movies and TV shows during his half-century career, also said that the Oscar-nominated film couldn’t offer an accurate portrayal of the American West because its director, Jane Campion, is from New Zealand. Cumberbatch, Campion and film writers have repeatedly said that the point of the movie is to examine “toxic masculinity” through Cumberbatch’s character, Phil Burbank.
Elliott said he had just spent several months in Texas, shooting the Paramount+ TV Western series “1883.” Elliott said: “I was hanging out with families, not men, but families — big long, extended multiple-generation families who made their living were all about being cowboys.”
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