"1883" star Sam Elliott doesn't know what all the fuss is about when it comes to his trademark mustachio.
"Yeah, it's a weird thing. It's just hair on somebody's lip" Elliott said on the "Today" show about the fascination surrounding his mustache. "I'm comfortable with it or without it, I've worked without it a number of times over the years. I mean, I work with it now." Case in point: Elliott's recurring character on the adult animated sitcom series "Family Guy" wherein he plays a rancher named Wild Wild West who raises mustaches — yes, mustaches. "My contribution is pretty much playing myself ... It's not like they wanted me to come up with a straight 'character' voice, so to speak. I'm leaning on the southwestern thing a little bit. Beyond that, I'm playing it fairly straight and letting the jokes take care of themselves," Elliott told the New York Post about the voiceover role.
But speaking of working with such fabulous facial hair — we mustache the question. How does Elliott maintain that kind of lip foliage? Here's what we know...
