‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’: How Lily Gladstone Aimed To Honor Mollie Burkhart And The Osage Nation With Truth And Accuracy
deadline.comBefore Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon debuted at Cannes, audiences had a preview of what his leading lady Lily Gladstone could do in the Sundance title Fancy Dance, in which she played a Native American aunt who would do anything to keep her family together.
Family plays a big part in Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s 2017 bestseller too; in his telling of the horrific true crimes committed against the oil-rich Osage people of Oklahoma.
Gladstone’s real-life character, Mollie, marries Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and stumbles on a plot devised by her husband’s duplicitous uncle William King Hale (Robert De Niro) to kill her kinfolk for their money.
Here, Gladstone discusses what it meant to tell Mollie’s story. DEADLINE: Congratulations on your Golden Globe nomination. LILY GLADSTONE: Thank you.
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