“What’s made this process so meaningful is how much it means to Native people. These beats of making history, they’re a lot for one person to carry. But it feels a lot more manageable because there’s such elation from so many people in the community.”
-Lily Gladstone, episode 361 of Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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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Show-notes:
- Watch Killers of the Flower Moon on Apple TV+ and in select theaters.
- Read the bestselling book by David Grann.
- See more of Lily’s work in Reservation Dogs, First Cow, and Certain Women.
- Follow her on Instagram.
- Attend An Evening With… Lily Gladstone, hosted by Film Independent in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 18th.
- For more, hear our talks with Tom Hanks, Michelle Williams, Oscar Isaac, and Tessa Thompson.
- Order your Talk Easy mug in cream and navy or our vinyl record with Fran Lebowitz.
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Original illustration by Krishna Shenoi. Reference Photograph by Ramona Rosales.
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