THB #90: Man Chaps Dog

The Exchange

Marc Maron: Did you see Power of the Dog?

Sam Elliott: Do you want to talk about that piece of shit?

M: You didn’t like that one?

S: Fuck no.

M: Okay… why?

S: I didn’t like it anyway. I looked at it when I was down in Texas doing 1883, and what really brought it home to me the other day… there was a full-page ad in the LA Times and there was a [clip] and it talked about ‘the evisceration of the American myth,’ and I thought, ‘What the fuck? What the fuck?’ This is the guy that’s done Westerns forever. The evisceration of the American West, they look like, what are all those dancers in New York that wear bowties and not much else? Remember them from back in the day?

M: The Chippendales?

S: That’s what all these fuckin’ cowboys in that movie looked like. They’re all runnin’ around in chaps and no shirts. There’s all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the fuckin’ movie.

M: I think that’s what the movie is about.

S: Yeah. Well, what the fuck does this woman from…

M: Who? Jane…