AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Lily Gladstone is standing on the cusp of history

 

December 15, 2023



NEW YORK (AP) — Lily Gladstone is named after her great-grandmother.

The elder Lily bore many similarities to Gladstone's character in Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon," Mollie Burkhart. Both women, born 10 years apart in the late 19th century, were traditional in nature, well-loved by their Native communities and devout Catholics.

Growing up between Seattle and the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, Gladstone was familiar with the stories of older generations of Native women — of their encounters with a fast-modernizing America and the brutal attempts to extract resources from tri...



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