Gladstone’s Mollie is the film’s beating heart, reflecting her people’s pain through her eyes. Adapted from David Grann’s bestselling nonfiction book, it’s a harrowing portrait of the Reign of Terror, a period in the 1920s when Osage were systematically murdered by white settlers for the headrights to their oil-rich land. Now, all these years later, Gladstone may become the first Native American winner for acting in Oscar history for her quietly powerful turn as Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman preyed upon by her husband, Ernest ( Leonardo DiCaprio), and his rapacious uncle William Hale ( Robert De Niro) in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. And when you’re a kid and your dad who can move clouds tells you something like that, you think it’s true.” “Like I said, my dad’s a little bit of a wizard. They’re all going to be your friend someday when you win your Oscar.’” And he very matter-of-factly said, ‘Oh, it’s OK, honey. I was struggling to keep friendships, bullied a lot. “When I was nine, it was the worst of it. “My dad saw early on when I was onstage that I just thrived,” Gladstone says. When Lily Gladstone was growing up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in rural Montana, acting in plays was an escape from bullies, who targeted her for being “verbose and goofy.” The idea came from her father, a Native man of Piegan Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, whom she describes as “a bit of a wizard” and “had me convinced when I was younger that he was able to move clouds.”

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