‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone On Speaking Blackfeet In Her Golden Globes Acceptance Speech: “It Was One Of The More Natural Things I Could Do”
deadline.comLily Gladstone opened up backstage at the Golden Globes on Sunday about her decision to speak Blackfeet — the language of her heritage — in her acceptance speech for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture. “It’s often how I introduce myself to a new group of people, especially when it’s significant,” Gladstone said. “One of the first things we’re taught is you say your name, you say where you’re from and you say hello to everyone, all of my friends.
It was one of the more natural things I could do in the moment.” Gladstone, who is of Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, just became the first Indigenous person to win an award for Best Actress.
She learned Osage for the role of Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese‘s Killers of the Flower Moon, which tracks the horrifying true story of the systematic murder of people of the Osage Nation for the oil money from their land.
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as her husband Ernest Burkhart, who ultimately attempts to poison his wife in a plot to inherit her wealth.
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