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Lily Gladstone has been in over a dozen films, including Kelly Rycart's Certain Women,

and she's been on reservation dogs created by Sterling Hargoe.

But making a life as an actor, it's just not an easy thing and Gladstone said she was

applying for seasonal work at the Department of Agriculture studying insects

when she heard from a certain Martin Scorsese. Scorsese eventually cast her

as a lead and killers of the Flower Moon.

The film concerns a grisly series of murders

that took place in the Osage nation

after oil was discovered there.

Gladstone plays Molly Burkhart, an Osage woman married to a white man named Ernest, played in the film by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Gladstone is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and that's a historic first for a native woman.

She spoke recently with Michael Schulman, a staff writer at the New Yorker.

Your high school yearbook from Mount Lake Terrace High School has made the rounds online so I know that you were voted most likely to win an Oscar.

There's no question that's true.

It's really sweet. My graduating class and then a lot of people that were in the same drama program.

They're reuniting to watch the Oscars in our old high school theater.

It's really touching. watch the Oscars in our old high school theater.

It's really touching.

Well, so then you went and studied acting

and directing at the University of Montana.

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