Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone considered quitting acting before Martin Scorsese cast her | celebrities

“You just wonder if it’s sustainable,” Gladstone told The Hollywood Reporter about her acting career in May, ahead of the premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon at the Cannes Film Festival. “I took out my credit card to sign up for a data analysis course,” she revealed. However, in her mailbox she found an email from Martin Scorsese. He contacted Gladstone to cast her in Killers of the Flower Stone because he was impressed by her performance in the 2016 film Moina. Instead of changing careers, Lily accepted the message and soon after ended up in the film. A group of big names like Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.

The film – based on the 2017 non-fiction book of the same name – takes place in the 1920s in Oklahoma, United States. Members of the indigenous Osage tribe are killed after oil is found on their lands. The newly formed FBI takes over the investigation. Lily Gladstone plays Molly, one of the targets of the murders.

All the cast and crew were nervous but determined to do the story justice, Gladstone said at the Cannes Film Festival last May. “It’s very important not to take it too seriously.” She tried not to get distracted by the fame of her co-stars. “I couldn’t let my fatigue get in the way of honest work.” But that was easier said than done. Gladstone admitted to The Hollywood Reporter that her hands were shaking during the first days of filming opposite DiCaprio.

However, according to the latter, Gladstone became “a source of guidance for all of us – including Scorsese – in terms of the way we told the story.” “I studied Molly Burkhart and her family for months, working extensively to understand the complexities of this woman, her relationship with Ernest (DiCaprio’s character, editor) and her legacy within the Osage community,” DiCaprio says.

Scorsese also has nothing but praise for the actress. Gladstone seems to have demonstrated in Certain Women that she relied on simplicity. She understood her screen presence as an expressive tool that could speak for itself. This is very rare. The director adds that she also put this simplicity into the movie Killers of the Flower Moon. “Her silence, like Molly’s, was often stronger than her words.”