Benedict Cumberbatch Reacts To Sam Elliott's Anti-Gay Take On THE POWER OF THE DOG's Self-Loathing Gay Character
Cumberbatch has thought things through more than Elliott has. (Image via video still) Benedict Cumberbatch is responding to Sam Elliott's ridiculously homophobic take on The Power of the Dog without calling him out by name, saying in a new BAFTA Film Sessions interview: I'm trying very hard not to say anything about a very odd reaction that happened the other day on a radio podcast over here.
Without meaning to sort of stir over the ashes of that, it's, it just — I won't get into the details of it, if it's hit the news at home, it has, it has here — but someone really took offense to ...
I haven't heard it, so it's unfair, really, for me to comment in detail on it ... but, really took offense to the West being portrayed in this way.
And beyond that reaction, that sort of denial that anybody could have any other than a heteronormative existence because of what they do for a living or where they're born, there's also a massive intolerance within the world at large towards homosexuality still, towards an acceptance of the other, of any kind of difference, and no more so, I guess, in this prism of conformity, in the sense of what is expected of a man in the sort of the western archetype mold of masculinity ...
