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Lily Gladstone Is Holding the Door Open

The “Killers of the Flower Moon” star on how to curse in Blackfoot, being nominated for an Oscar, and the many Native actors she hopes will follow her.

She married Ernest Burkhart (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), a white man who conspired with his uncle William Hale (Robert De Niro) to knock off Mollie’s relatives in order to inherit her family’s headrights. But, growing up back home, after Missoula Children’s Theatre shows, people would tell my parents that when they saw me, like, in full costume playing one of Cinderella’s ugly stepsisters, they didn’t recognize me. The character I played was a boarding-school survivor who had gone through the Ganado Mission hospital, trained to become a nurse in the Second World War, and then was in a letter correspondence with her clan brother, who had become a Navajo code talker.

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