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Interview with Sam Elliott!

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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.

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