UPDATED to clarify:Leonardo DiCapriohas only words of praise forKillers of the Flower Moonbreakout starLily Gladstone.
Gladstone herself is Native American, and grew up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near the Montana-Canada border.
Gladstone initially did a selftape audition before Covid shut everything down, she previously toldInterviewmagazine.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’Apple/Paramount
Scorsese shared his impressionsof Gladstone with Deadline earlier this year: Lily had her own thoughts.
She has an intelligence and a groundedness about her, in her mind and heart.
Scorsese and DiCapriourged Gladstone to delve into the moral aspectsof the story.
The tightrope walk was exploring the relationship between Ernest and Mollie.
After some initial retooling of the script, Scorsese decided to bring Gladstones Mollie to the films forefront.
We werent immersed in the Osage story, DiCaprio said of the initial drafts.
