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Jesse Plemonsis laughing off the haters.
The Academy Award nominee, 33, shared his candid reaction toSam Elliott’s recent criticism ofThe Power of the Dogas he spoke toThe Hollywood Reporterat the red carpet premiere of his new film,Windfall, on Saturday.
“I don’t know why I reacted this way, but — I’m not going to say it made me happy, but it made me laugh. I don’t know,” Plemons mused. “People can have their own opinions about something. I know there are different layers to that … but not everyone has to like it.”
He and fiancéeKirsten Dunstrecentlyreceived their first Oscar nominationsfor their performances in theJane Campion-written and directed western, both earning nods in the Best Supporting Actor/Actress categories.
Elliott, 77, previously said the film “rubbed [him] the wrong way” as he appeared last month on theWTF with Marc Maronpodcast, likening the film’s cowboy characters to Chippendales and criticizing Campion’s depiction of the American West, as she’s from New Zealand.
Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst inThe Power of the Dog(2021).KIRSTY GRIFFIN/NETFLIX
“They’re all running around in chaps and no shirts. There’s all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the f—ing movie,” Elliott vented, to which hostMarc Maronremarked: “Yeah, I thinkthat’s what the movie’s about.”
“And why in the f— does she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana and say, ‘This is the way it was?'” he asked.
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“Without meaning to stir over the ashes of that … someone really took offense to — I haven’t heard it so it’s unfair for me to comment in detail on it — to the West being portrayed in this way,” Cumberbatch noted.
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“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 and toward an acceptance of the other and any kind of difference … it’s not a history lesson,” he added.
Cumberbatch, 45, stars inThe Power of Dogas a grizzly cattle rancher who unexpectedly falls for the young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) of a widow (Dunst) who recently moved to his ranch. The character grapples with his sexuality in an era and region that emphasizes binary gender roles and expectations.
The Power of the Dogis now streaming on Netflix.
source: people.com
