Lily Gladstone is a rising star making her prominent in Hollywood’s big movies as she recently appeared in Martin Scorsese’s epic Western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon. While the actor was enjoying the spotlight of the movie, she made a huge confession about Harry Potter.
Harry Potter was the treasure that went on to become a pop culture phenomenon. Evidently, the franchise and the movie adaption followed certain drawbacks but undeniably, the franchise made a mark among fans and critics like no other, even Gladstone was candid enough to admit it.
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Lily Gladstone Is Disappointed At JK Rowling
While JK Rowling created a world of wizardry with astounding storytelling prowess in her arsenal. Still, Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone feels Rowling’s representation of the bloodlines and Muggles in the book series had an immaculate correlation to the conversation about the natives.
“Even though I’m horribly disappointed by J.K. Rowling now, when Harry Potter was out there were a lot of people who felt the conversation about bloodlines and Muggles was a conversation about Native bloodlines. We find ways to connect,” Gladstone told Rolling Stone.
But she was “only into Star Wars because I was into the Ewoks,” the actor said. “I didn’t know this then, but they’re such a beacon of Indigenous resistance,” Gladstone continued adding, “And they rocked it. They brought the Empire down, I’m sorry.” Following the success of Martin Scorsese’s 2023 movie starring Gladstone alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, the 37-year-old has been voicing for the rights and representation of native Indians. Certainly, sticking to the root and fighting to preserve its essence are among the fundamental ethics the actor can not shy away from.
Killers of the Flower Moon— A Tragic Document of A Forgotten American History
Cinema will serve the interest of everyone at some point eventually. Often intense tragic instances in history are overlooked for political reasons but it’s not eternal, they would grab the attention of filmmakers like Scorsese to create a masterpiece. Of late, the invisible restriction on representation and inclusion has been unblocked by a wave of demand among filmmakers in search of stories to tell. “I think we will get a lot of other TV shows and films that are made by Native people,” Gladstone told The Guardian.
“The era of the ‘classic western’ which relegated us to being bloodthirsty savages. We didn’t have our leading ladies in our sweeping, tragic love stories like classic old Hollywood. So placing this incredible Indigenous cast in these roles that we’ve been excluded from in film history is very restorative. We had so much Osage input into Killers of the Flower Moon, and that really shaped everything you see on screen. I hope this will set a new precedent for people working with communities in Hollywood.”
Based on David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book of the same name which primarily reflected on the birth of the FBI, was not the crux of Scorsese’s retelling of the Osage. The director scrapped the initial screenplay after he was invited by the Osage people to tell their story, the director had time and created a version of the story that was essentially original, born directly out of the plight and agony of the history of the indigenous community.
