Michael Schulman interviews Lily Gladstone, the first Native American woman nominated for the Best Actress Oscar, for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
The role of Mollie Kyle, who lived from 1886 to 1937, is a tricky one. She married Ernest Burkhart , a white man who conspired with his uncle William Hale to knock off Mollie’s relatives in order to inherit her family’s headrights. In the film, Mollie suspects from the start that Ernest is after her money—“Coyote wants money,” she teases him—but she doesn’t divorce him until after his crimes are exposed in court.
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. So I was teaching a little bit about that history as well, about the Native veteran experience. It’s a heavy story to carry alone. I did that for as many years as I could but got burned out on it.
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