Lily Gladstone (‘Killers of the Flower Moon’) is Making History

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🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Actor Lily Gladstone made history last month when she netted a Best Actress nomination for her work in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.

At the top, we discuss this landmark moment for the film (7:00), her personal approach to the role of Mollie Kyle (9:58), and a revealing scene between Lily and Leonardo DiCaprio (15:40). Then, we walk through Gladstone’s connection to the “trickster” story (19:00), her creative upbringing on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana (21:55), and her road to acting as a teenager (26:50) and later a touring performer in her twenties (30:40).

On the back-half, Gladstone reflects on her early, complicated experiences auditioning in Hollywood (44:15), how she and Martin Scorsese aimed to honor the Osage legacy in this new project (48:30), the life-changing performance that came to be (58:00), and her hope for a true paradigm shift in the entertainment industry (1:03:25).

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0:27.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy.
0:43.0	I'm San Fregoso. Welcome to the show. Today I'm joined by actor Lily Gladstone. She broke out back in 2016 playing a lonely rancher
1:16.2	in Kelly Reitgart's film Certain Women. She starred opposite of Michelle
1:21.0	Williams and Kristen Stewart in that one, and her talent then was as undeniable
1:26.0	as it is now.
1:27.7	But it took a minute for the industry to take notice.
1:31.0	In fact, as the pandemic rolled around, Gladstone even considered leaving acting for a seasonal data analytic job tracking bees.
1:40.0	But as she pulled out her debit card to pay for the job application, she As she received an unexpected email, a request to meet with Director Martin Scorsese over Zoom.
1:52.0	She paused for all of two seconds and accepted the invitation.
1:57.0	The result, Killers of the Flower Moon. A sprawling adaptation of journalist David Grant's best-selling book which focuses on the
2:05.6	O'Sage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma where it was soon discovered that their land is flush with
2:12.4	oil.
2:13.3	What follows that discovery are a series of murders of the Osage people, until the FBI steps
2:19.8	in to uncover what was always hiding in plain sight.
2:24.0	Here's a little bit from the trailer of Killers of the Flower Moon. The old sage, they have the worst land possible.
2:37.0	But they outsmart everybody.
2:41.0	The land had oil on it.
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