Killers Of The Flower Moon: Lily Gladstone on Devery Jacobs’ review of ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’: “This film gave a lot of people the opportunity to speak”
Lily Gladstone defends her Reservation Dogs co-star Devery Jacobs’ right to comment on Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese’s take on the Osage murders.
The recipient of the Golden Globe briefly touched upon the remarks made by the Echo star regarding the movie. Jacobs characterized the viewing experience as “hell.” The film unfolds the narrative of a “reign of terror,” a series of unsolved murders committed by white Americans as part of a plot to steal the wealth of the Osage tribe, which retained mineral rights, including oil leases, on their reservation.
This took place in part when white men married tribal women and became guardians of their Osage partner’s heritage. In the film, Gladstone plays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman who is attacked along with her family by her husband, Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), over her oil rights to his Oklahoma reservation.
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Gladstone told Rolling Stone that she and Jacobs are friends, and the latter allowed the ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ star to crash “on her couch in Toronto when Certain Women were playing at TIFF.” As a fellow native, Gladstone expressed that she didn’t want to “go back to criticizing [Jacobs] for this because I think it’s unfair. Her reaction is hers.”
The Unknown Country star and writer added that reactions like Jacobs’ are “a response to a lot of trauma that Native women particularly feel when seeing these things for the first time,” before noting that she herself “had a lot of time to acclimatize.” Myself to the script.
“The Osage people have dedicated their lives to understanding this history,” she continued. “The production of this movie provided numerous individuals with a platform to express themselves. Ultimately, the Osage reaction is what matters most to me.”
While much of the buzz surrounding the film praised its Indigenous representation, Jacobs wasn’t the only person to speak out about the film’s white-led perspective, and Christopher Cote, the Osage linguistic advisor on the film, He told The Hollywood Reporter at the film’s premiere in Los Angeles that after seeing the film, he had “some strong opinions.”
As an Osage, he really wanted this to be from Mollie’s perspective and what her family experienced, but I think it would take an Osage to do that,” Cote said. “”Even though Martin Scorsese isn’t of Osage descent, he skillfully depicted our community in his artistic creations.
However, the narrative predominantly unfolds through the lens of Ernest Burkhart, imbuing him with a certain awareness and suggesting the presence of love.
Yet, orchestrating a plot to annihilate an entire family cannot be equated with love. “This transcends love, it ventures into the realm of maltreatment.”
Last Sunday, Gladstone won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Dramatic category for her role in the film, marking a first for the Indigenous acting community and the awards show. She is expected to be among the Oscar nominees for best actress and is currently one of the favorites to take home the Academy Award.
