[ad_1]
Lily Gladstone opened up backstage at the Golden Globes on Sunday about her decision to speak Blackfoot — the language of her heritage — in her acceptance speech after winning Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama.
“It’s often how I introduce myself to a new group of people, especially when it’s significant,” Gladstone said. “One of the first things we’re taught is you say your name, you say where you’re from and you say hello to everyone, all of my friends. It was one of the more natural things I could do in the moment.”
Gladstone, who is of Blackfoot and Nez Perce heritage, just became the first Indigenous person to win an award for Best Actress.
She learned Osage for the role of Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese‘s Killers of the Flower Moon, which tracks the horrifying true story of the systematic murder of people of the Osage Nation for the oil money from their land. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as her husband Ernest Burkhart, who ultimately attempts to poison his wife in a plot to inherit her wealth.
A smiling Gladstone also explained her choice to bring her mom as her date to the Golden Globes ceremony: “My mom and my dad, my whole life, they’ve never once questioned that this was what I was meant to do. They would always support me. There were times of famine, there were times of feast. So I’m really excited to have mom here and have dad watching and then to go home and have a big old feast.”
[ad_2]
Source link
