Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone slams Yellowstone for portraying the American West, but admits she previously auditioned for the hit series .
The 37-year-old made history earlier this month when she became the first indigenous person to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama. In an interview with Vulture that resurfaced in August, Gladstone slammed “Yellowstone” for what the show described as “cowboy myth-making.”
“It's a delusion! It's deplorable!” Mr. Gladstone said of the series, created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson.
Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone slammed Yellowstone, calling it “deplorable” and “delusional.” (Paramount Network/Getty)
“No offense to native talent for that,” she added. “We auditioned a few times. That's what we wanted.”
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According to Vulture, Gladstone's father is of Blackfeet and Nez Perce descent, and his mother is white. In a 2017 interview with the Guardian, Gladstone revealed that she lived on the Blackfeet Nation reservation in Montana until she was 11 years old.
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Gladstone co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, based on David Grann's nonfiction book of the same name.
The actress played Molly Kyle, an Osage Nation woman living on the tribe's reservation in Oklahoma. In the film, her character marries World War I veteran Ernest Burkhardt (DiCaprio).
Gladstone, who is the first Indigenous person to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture or Drama, admitted she had auditioned for the hit show several times. (Golden Globe Awards 2024, via Getty Images)
Set in the 1920s, the film follows Molly, who, according to the synopsis, “exposes and survives a series of greed-fueled murders committed against the Osage community after oil is discovered on Osage land. It depicts “fighting for the sake of others.”
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In an interview with Vulture, Gladstone praised Killers of the Flower Moon's focus on Indigenous characters.
“This is not a white savior story,” she told the outlet. “It's the Osage saying, 'Do something, we have money, come help us.'”
“Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan defended the show against critics who deemed it “anti-woke.” (Paramount Network)
In a November 2022 interview with The Atlantic magazine, he said: Sheridan slams critics He claimed that “Yellowstone” was “anti-woke”.
“They call it the 'conservative show'…the 'Republican show' and the 'red state.'” 'game of thrones,'” He said.
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Sheridan continued, “And I just sit there and laugh. I'm like, 'Really?'” The show is about the forced relocation of Native Americans, the treatment of Native American women, and corporate greed. , talks about gentrification and land grabbing in the West. Is it a red state program? ”
The Paramount+ show, starring Kevin Costner as rancher John Dutton, is scheduled to air the second half of its fifth and final season in November 2024.
