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Lily Gladstone says friends assumed she'd be on SNL someday: 'People [are] surprised I became a dramatic actress'

Lily Gladstone didn't expect to become a dramatic actor. The assumption, says the 'Killers of the Flower Moon' star, was that she'd someday be on 'Saturday Night Live.' With 'The Wedding Banquet,' Gladstone at long last flexes her comedic muscles: 'I've loved doing [comedy] since I was a little kid.'

"I've loved doing this since I was a little kid," Gladstone tells Entertainment Weekly of the comedy genre in a joint interview with her costars, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang, and Han Gi-chan. Lily Gladstone and director Martin Scorsese on set of 'Killers of the Flower Moon'.Paramount Pictures She adds, "When I was doing my first plays, people would come up to my mom and dad and be like, 'We're going to see her on Saturday Night Live someday,' or, 'She's going to be like The Nanny, have some kind of sitcom.' Gladstone gets back to her comedy roots in The Wedding Banquet as Lee, whose hopes of starting a family with her partner Angela (played by Tran) are derailed by a series of unsuccessful and costly IVF treatments.

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