Lily Gladstone is extremely grateful for her dating with Killers of the Flower Moon costar Leonardo DiCaprio.
“Leo’s been incredible,” Gladstone, 37, informed Additional in an interview printed on Monday, January 8. “I’m an only child, but I always imagined this is what it would feel like to have a big brother.”
Gladstone famous that DiCaprio, 49, “teases” and “encourages” her identical to a just right sibling must – and was once much more serious about her 2024 Golden Globe nomination than she was once.
“He was getting more worked up before I was, just waiting for the category,” she quipped of the Sunday, January 7, rite. “He told me he was proud of me, no matter what the outcome.”
Gladstone took house the win for Perfect Efficiency by way of a Feminine Actor in a Movement Image — Drama on the awards display for her position as Mollie Burkhart within the Apple TV+ movie, making her the primary indigenous winner of the class. She beat out Annette Bening (Nyad), Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall), Greta Lee (Previous Lives), Carey Mulligan (Maestro) and Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla) for the trophy, starting her acceptance speech in Blackfeet ahead of proceeding in English.
“My mom — who even though she’s not Blackfeet — worked tirelessly to get our language into our classrooms,” she defined. “I’m so grateful that I could speak even a little bit of my language, which I’m not fluent enough in because Native actors used to speak their lines in English and then the sound mixers would run them backwards to accomplish Native language on camera.”
Gladstone went directly to thank DiCaprio and their costar Robert De Niro in addition to director Martin Scorsese for his or her enhance. “This is a historic win that doesn’t belong to just me. Thank you Marty. Thank you Leo. Thank you Bob,” she mentioned. “You are all changing things. Thank you for being such allies.”
Killers of the Flower Moon tells the actual tale of a chain of murders of Osage Indigenous American citizens In Nineteen Twenties Oklahoma. The historic drama scored a complete of 7 nods at this yr’s Globes, together with Perfect Movement Image — Drama, Perfect Unique Ranking — Movement Image, Perfect Screenplay — Movement Image and Perfect Director.
Whilst talking to Additional, Gladstone published that DiCaprio — who portrays her husband, Ernest Burkhart, within the film — began “teasing” her over the opportunity of profitable “after the first week of production,” which kicked off in April 2021. Whilst Gladstone informed him to “shut up” on the time,” she now offers the actor “full permission” to start out teasing her once more.
Any poking from DiCaprio, then again, is only out of affection. The Titanic big name has taken each alternative to gush about Gladstone and her ability for the reason that pair started selling the movie closing yr.
“Marty just instinctively knew Lily was the one,” DiCaprio informed British Style in September 2023, noting that there was once a “truthfulness in [Gladstone’s] eyes” that got here thru even if the director met her by way of Zoom. “She carries the entire film and the story.”
DiCaprio isn’t mistaken. Since its October 2023 premiere, the movie and Gladstone right away started to garner main awards season buzz, with Killers of the Flower Moon making it into more than one classes at the Academy Awards season shortlist.
When requested about probably scoring her first Oscar nomination later this yr, then again, Gladstone performed it cool, telling Additional, “One thing at a time, right?”