A Fondness for Westerns
Elliott has been typecast as the cowboy in many Westerns. Speaking about his liking of the Western genre and why he got so involved in it, Elliott said in an interview, “I think it has something to do with integrity and a man’s word and honor and all that kind of stuff like values, morality, and all that kind of stuff that everybody looks kind of down their nose at.”
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Even the Coen brothers cast him as a cowboy in the Big Lebowski. That’s when Elliott decided to embrace his image of a deep-voiced cowboy with a handlebar mustache. “You just grow up, and you realize, you know, life serves up what it serves up. I got over being anything but thankful for being in any kind of a box, Western or not. It’s been a rich life,” he said.