Sam Elliott is one of the most recognizable actors working today.
Just don’t tell him that.
“We went to this thing at the Directors Guild the other day, and it seemed, to me, so over the top that they were talking about me being iconic,” Elliott says. “What I feel like is that I’m just old and I’m still lucky to be working.”
With his stoic demeanor, deep voice and a mustache chiseled out of marble, Elliott, 81, has long established himself as a great onscreen “man’s man” in Hollywood. He has become a prototype for cowboys and tough guys across film and television following his roles in projects like “Tombstone,” “Mask,” “The Big Lebowski” and “The Sacketts.”
It seems only natural, then, that Elliott would work with Taylor Sheridan, the modern master of the Western genre. The two first collaborated on “1883,” a “Yellowstone” prequel in which Elliott plays a former Civil War soldier and wagon train leader mourning the death of his wife and son.
