Interview with Sam Elliott!

[slayers_creek_oth]

http://boxofficemojo.com/features/?id=2042&p=.htm

Box Office Mojo: Did you see Brokeback Mountain?

Sam Elliott: I did. I went with my wife [actress Katharine Ross (The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)] and I didn't really get what all the to-do was about. It is a beautiful film and I was thrilled for Ang [Lee, who directed Elliott in Hulk], but it isn't a Western. For one thing, it's about a couple of sheepherders, not cattlemen. The whole homosexual thing was interesting—they stepped over the line—but Katharine and I both looked at it and thought, 'what's the big deal?'

Box Office Mojo: Some conservatives claim it denigrates the cowboy. What do you think?

Sam Elliott: I do not think it's anti-cowboy. I have tremendous respect for Ang as a filmmaker.



Just thought it was interesting....

[sparkle_motion]

Stepped over the line?
Hey, isn't Sam Elliott dead? Oh no, that's his career.

[wtbgirl]

Yeeeahh - the last thing I remember that guy being in was Roadhouse - what a classic.

[starboardlight]

He was in the Hulk.

[Ellemeno]

Katherine Ross was so beautiful back in Butch Cassidy and Stepford Wives days (she probably still is, i just haven't seen her).  I've thought that those close ups of Anne Hathaway when they dance the first time look kind of like Katherine Ross.

[starboardlight]

Katherine Ross was so beautiful back in Butch Cassidy and Stepford Wives days (she probably still is, i just haven't seen her).  I've thought that those close ups of Anne Hathaway when they dance the first time look kind of like Katherine Ross.

you and I are often on the same frequency. I thought the same thing.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Katherine Ross was so beautiful back in Butch Cassidy and Stepford Wives days (she probably still is, i just haven't seen her).  I've thought that those close ups of Anne Hathaway when they dance the first time look kind of like Katherine Ross.

I agree, Katharine Ross was beautiful (and probably still is). Let's not forget, she was in The Graduate, too.

[EnnisDelMar]

Stepped over the line?
Hey, isn't Sam Elliott dead? Oh no, that's his career.

[EnnisDelMar]

Didn't Katharine Ross play Dr. Thurman in Donnie Darko?

[RingerFanatic]

Yep! She was Donnie Darko's therapist. She must have been impressed with Jake's talents. As for Sam Elliot's comment of "crossing the line". What did he mean? I just saw him in "Thank You For Smoking". He plays the Marlboro Man who sues the cigarette company after contracting lung cancer. I know he played a lot of cowboys in the 70's and 80's. He's kind of in that Nick Nolte category....played rugged tough guys in the early days and now looks like death warmed over.