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Watch Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon Chat, a Tribute to Cinema and Friendship

In a GQ exclusive, two film legends (and iconic New Yorkers) sit down to discuss the making of Scorsese's Oscar-nominated masterpiece, showdowns with Frank Sinatra, the head-in-vise scene from 'Casino,' and a whole lot more.

If a famous Hollywood triple-OG has an Oscar contender on deck, you can bet sooner or later they’ll pair up with someone of equal stature to engage in a very dope discussion where they both get to fan out over the other. We get Scorsese going into great detail about the process of making Flower Moon, from the meeting with a group of Osage elders that unlocked the story to the pivotal casting of Lily Gladstone (“She has a face that’s like a natural for cinema— you can read anything into it…I’m Italian, so it’s like Renaissance painting. Then we get into untold stories from their respective legendary filmographies, like how Spike smoothed over static with Frank Sinatra (who didn’t take kindly to seeing his photo burned up in Do the Right Thing) in order to license songs for Jungle Fever, or Scorsese recalling what it was like for him and his longtime right hand, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, to sit with an unsuspecting test-screening audience as they watched Joe Pesci pull out a kitchen knife to finish off Billy Batts in the opening sequence of a then-unreleased film called Goodfellas.

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