LOS ANGELES.- Lily Gladstone knew she wanted to be in a special place when the nominations were announced. scar. And that place was not at home, watching it on television, but in Oklahoma with the Osage native people, where the real-life woman she plays in lived. Killers of the Flower Moon (The Moon Killers) of Martin Scorsese.
“I decided I wanted to be on the Osage Reservation, in case this news came today,” Gladstone said in an interview shortly after receiving her historic nomination for best actress, becoming the first indigenous American to receive this honor.
“I wanted to be as close to Mollie Kyle and her family as possible. So I’m here in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Once things are over, I think I’m going to drive to Fairfax and Gray Horse and pay my respects there.”
Gladstone’s parents called her FaceTime while the nominations were announced. He asked them not to show him the television screen, but to focus on their own faces.
“‘Turn the camera over,'” he recalled telling his mother. “‘I want to see your and dad’s reactions!’ And sure enough, I could hear them start saying my name, but then it was drowned out because my parents were cheering and my dog started barking.”
“Moment of repair”
The nominacin of Gladstone was no surprise. Praise for the 37-year-old actress’s performance began since the film was released in October, and she won a Golden Globe earlier this month. She has had time and opportunity to articulate her experience in this historic moment, and she remains just as passionate.
“It’s what I’ve been saying all this time and I still absolutely feel it,” he said. “I happen to be the bearer of this honor right now… (but) it should have happened a long time ago. It’s a real moment of reparation, putting indigenous talent in these roles, highlighting their humanity, I think it’s breaking a lot of stereotypes that people have.” has on Native women, especially Native Americans.
“We are taking our place where we belong,” he said of indigenous actors and storytellers. “And it’s taken a long time to get here. But it’s very necessary.”
Gladstone, who grew up between Seattle and the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, and learned the Osage language for the film, added that the recognition comes: “at a time when across the country, stories like this are being buried, they are considered too self-conscious.”
“I’m pleased to be in a film that consolidates this story in the public eye, that makes it accessible for people to see, to get inside of it in a way that only cinema can take you inside, as brutal as it is. can be, as heartbreaking and challenging as it can be,” he said.
Next steps
Killers of the Flower Moonan adaptation of the crime novel of the same name by David Granón, which is based on facts, focuses more than the book on the relationship between Mollie and her husband, Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), who loves her, but in some way also participates in a sinister plot with his uncle, played by Robert De Niro (who was also nominated for an Oscar) to eliminate his family and take over their oil-rich lands.
But Gladstone pointed out that the film was not just about what she called the “horrible, complicated, skewed love” between Mollie and Ernest. It’s also, she said, about: “the love that Mollie and her community had for each other. The one that carries everyone forward.”
“We move forward, passing on our stories, passing on our sense of identity and our knowledge, adapting and growing,” he said. “So the fact that the story is being broadcast on such a massive scale, I hope it ignites a curiosity that maybe wasn’t there before for most people.”
Whatever happens at the Oscars, Gladstone’s career continues to rise. So what’s next for her?
“I have some cool things I can announce soon,” he said. “Some other things I’ve been mulling over for years with collaborators, with incredible filmmakers. And now there’s definitely more of a green light for those stories to progress. I feel incredibly blessed to be a working actress, period. So even making a living doing “What I love feels like an immense victory.”
Gladstone added that she was: “very excited about everything that will come from this. As an actress and then how I can help other stories be told that deserve to be there. A lot of marginalized stories, and particularly from indigenous territories.”
FUENTE: AP
