Actor Sam Elliott

Elliott had dismissed the Benedict Cumberbatch-starrer and made, what many deemed, derogatory comments against the film's theme and its director.

I'm sorry I hurt any of those friends and someone that I loved. "And I said some things that hurt people and I feel terrible about that. I am," the actor said while speaking during Deadline's Contenders TV event Sunday to promote 1883 on Paramount+.

Sam Elliott has apologized for trashing Jane Campion's Oscar-winning Western "The Power of the Dog," saying he feels terrible for calling the film "a piece ...

“Where’s the Western in this Western?” Elliott continued. And this is just another version of it,” Campion further said of her film. There’s all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the f – – king movie.” I’m sorry I hurt any of those friends and someone that I loved. “That’s what all these f – – king cowboys in that movie looked like,” the actor fumed. I am.”

Actor Sam Elliott has apologised for criticising the Oscar-winning film The Power Of The Dog.

"When you think about the number of amazing Westerns made in Spain by [director] Sergio Leone. I consider myself a creator. I’m sorry I hurt any of those friends and someone that I loved. "And I said some things that hurt people and I feel terrible about that. "I wasn’t very articulate about it. I am." And in particular Benedict Cumberbatch. I can only say that I’m sorry and I am.

Sam Elliott has publicly apologized for his criticism of the critically acclaimed Western film "The Power of the Dog" after facing fierce backlash for ...

Plus he's not a cowboy, he's an actor." They're all running around in chaps and no shirts, there's all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the f**king movie." "I'm sorry that I hurt any of those friends and someone that I loved. I didn't articulate it very well," he said at the event. Friends on every level and every job description up until today," he added. "I wasn't very articulate about it.

On Sunday, Sam Elliott apologized for making homophobic and xenophobic comments about 'The Power of the Dog,' Jane Campion's twisty Western drama that picks ...

And I am. And in trying to tell the guy, the WTF guy, how I felt about the film, I wasn’t very articulate about it. “There’s all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the fucking movie.” He also objected to the fact that Campion, who’s from New Zealand, filmed the movie there due to budget constraints, asking, “What the fuck does this woman from down there know about the American West?”