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Lily Gladstone Had Three Requirements Before Agreeing to Play an Indigenous Woman Cop in ‘Under the Bridge’: ‘It’s Almost the Only Role We Get to See’
Lily Gladstone avoided playing Native police officers until 'Under the Bridge.' Here, she discusses why she decided to join the true crime series.
So it’s understandable that Gladstone had something of a checklist in hand when she first met with the producers of “ Under the Bridge.” They were offering her the role of Cam Bentland, a police officer investigating the 1997 murder of Reena Virk (played by Vritika Gupta), a 14-year-old child of Indian immigrants in Saanich Core, British Columbia. She also wanted to give “a little nod” to Chief Dan George, the Tsleil-Waututh star of “Little Big Man,” who, in 1971, became the first North American Indigenous actor nominated for an Academy Award. There’s a consensus among pundits that Gladstone would have won an Oscar for “Killers of the Flower Moon” had she’d campaigned as a supporting actress instead of in the lead category, where she lost to Emma Stone.
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