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How ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Star Cara Jade Myers Ensured Anna Wasn’t a Caricature: ‘I Wasn’t Playing the Alcholism. I Was Playing the Pain’


'Killers of the Flower Moon' star Cara Jade Myers talks her breakout role as Anna in Martin Scorsese's latest film.

When the call went out for “ Killers of the Flower Moon,” Cara Jade Myers first read for the part of Rita and then for her sister Mollie, the focus of the film. Beyond the books and online research, Myers immersed herself in the community.“They live and breathe their culture and traditions and I would go to their dances and ask questions and they would sit and explain everything to me,” she recalls. Equally important, however, was that Myers — a relative unknown who had appeared in single episodes of “This Is Us” and “Rutherford Falls” — wanted to play the fullness of Anna, from the sweet and vulnerable scene with her mother to her more rebellious behavior.

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