Martin Scorsese on His Return to Cannes With ‘Killers of the Flower Moon': ‘It Came From the Heart’
thewrap.comdidn’t do it. “We went after the screenplay almost from an anthropological perspective,” DiCaprio said. “Marty was there every day.
We were talking to the community, trying to hear the real stories and trying to incorporate the truth as best as we possibly could.”Gladstone added, “These artistic souls on the stage here cared about telling a story that pierces the veil of what society tells us we’re supposed to care about.
You were there as a human being, not as somebody who was studying people. And there’s no other way to tell these stories.”In his remarks at the end of Saturday night’s premiere, Scorsese had talked about living and working on Osage land in Oklahoma during the show, and how much he missed it since finishing the movie. “I found that their values were so important to me, and it reoriented me every time they spoke,” he said at the press conference. “It just reoriented me as to what we’re doing here.
We’re making a movie, yes, but also what we’re doing here on earth.”Praising his director, DicCaprio remarked, “Marty’s perseverance and his ferocity in wanting to tell the truth about these stories, no matter how ugly, no matter how bizarre, no matter how uncomfortable is his mastery.
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