Gladstone

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeKillers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone has explained that their preference for she/they pronouns is their way of “decolonising gender”.The 37-year-old actor, who stars opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s latest Western drama about the early 1900s Osage Nation murders, is of Blackfeet and Nimiipuu heritage. “In most Native languages, most Indigenous languages,…

Lily Gladstone is getting standout acclaim for her work in Killers of the Flower Moon as wealthy Osage woman Mollie Kyle, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio's Ernest Burkhart, Mollie's duplicitous husband. And it turns out, the actress has a deep love for her co-star's other standout performance in Titanic, as she has a VHS of the film. Let's just say I love this '90s nostalgia for Titanic just as much as both actors' performances in Martin Scorsese's latest movie.Even more exciting than the awards buzz that's been humming…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLily Gladstone has recalled growing up as a devoted fan of her Killers of the Flower Moon co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.As well as discussing the influence his work had on her acting ambitions, she also revealed that her favourite performance of his is in 1998’s The Man in the Iron Mask. Randall Wallace’s Alexandre Dumas adaptation starred DiCaprio as both King Louis XIV and his exiled…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLily Gladstone has recalled growing up as a devoted fan of her Killers of the Flower Moon co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.As well as discussing the influence his work had on her acting ambitions, she also revealed that her favourite performance of his is in 1998’s The Man in the Iron Mask. Randall Wallace’s Alexandre Dumas adaptation starred DiCaprio as both King Louis XIV and his exiled…

Were you at all fazed by working with legends such as Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro?I don’t know that I was fazed, but I was definitely intimidated at first. With a role as big as Molly, you’ve just got to get through that quickly. But my hands were shaking the first day with Leo, and the same with Robert.Is there anything you did to break the ice with DiCaprio, your on-screen husband?He invited me over to dinner. We were sitting outside at his place with a fire going, and just talking. He pulled…

Lily Gladstone is a revelation in Martin Scorsese's period saga Killers of the Flower Moon. As one of the last Osage standing, Mollie, Lily exudes an easy charm. She effectively holds her own in front of stalwarts like Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, underlining the film's theme that Native Americans like her have so much to offer. (Also Read: Martin Scorsese interview: ‘Barbie and Oppenheimer’s success offers hope for a different cinema to emerge') Lily Gladstone plays the leading lady in Martin Scorsese's…

One of the most powerful performances among the 2023 new movie releases is Lily Gladstone’s role in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. In the award contender, the actress plays Mollie Burkhart, a member of Oklahoma’s Osage community that owned lucrative oil headrights. In the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio plays Mollie’s husband, Ernest Burkhart, who became the center of a series of murders of the Osage people. Gladstone spoke about how with DiCaprio’s role, the actor helped bring a more authentic depiction of these…

Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone took to her X account (formerly Twitter) on Thursday to address the film’s potentially triggering scenes some Indigenous peoples may experience when watching the brutal Osage murders depicted on screen. “The most pressing thing I’ve wanted to say about Killers of the Flower Moon, especially to Native Women & Youth: See it when and only if you feel ready, and see it with people you feel safe with,” Gladstone wrote. “You’ll likely have a lot of generational grief to…

Lone WomenImage: One WorldThis month, we’ve got new releases from M.R. Carey (The Girl With All the Gifts) and Victor LaValle (The Ballad of Black Tom, The Changeling), as well as a whole bunch of others, featuring rebellious royals, time-travelers, time-loop travelers, space adventurers, monsters, witches, and so much more.Image: Amazon CrossingHospital by Han Song, translated by Michael BerryThis novel by the acclaimed Chinese sci-fi writer follows a man who falls mysteriously ill, then must negotiate his way through a…