Lily Gladstone won a Golden Globe, voted by international journalists, for best actress in a drama film, starring with Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese, from the 2017 essay by David Grann Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Lily Gladstone (c) Adrienne Raquel-Golden Globes
Accepting the golden statuette, the actress said a few phrases in the Black Foot language of the Indian Reservation in Montana where she grew up, thanked her mother for working tirelessly to find a teacher of that language for their school.
The director had suggested she take inspiration from Olivia de Havilland in the 1949 film The Heiress, directed by William Wyler from Henry James’s 1880 novel Washington Square.
Lily Gladstone(c) Gilbert Flores-Golden Globes
Lily explains: “In playing a traditional woman from the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma, I also wanted to fill the void caused by the lack of Native American leading actresses during the heyday of Hollywood cinema in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. The Osage women had the same grace and kingship as the classic actresses. While Catherine as played by Olivia de Havilland was part of an oppressive patriarchal society, where women were considered worthless, the wife I play came from a matriarchal community, where women controlled finances and property, were loved and respected, and families celebrated the birth of a daughter. But eventually, when Montgomery Clift knocks on the door, Catherine doesn’t open it, locks it, and climbs the stairs. And Mollie walks out of the room, realizing that Ernest lied to her.”
Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone © Melinda Sue Gordon-Apple
Lily admires Leo: “He is incredibly generous as an actor and as a human being, one of the most generous people I have ever met in my life. He was so patient with me, he gave me so much space and encouragement.”
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