This image released by Apple TV+ shows, from left, JaNae Collins, Lily Gladstone, and Cara Jade Myers in a scene from 'Killers of the Flower Moon.'
In an interview with Q guest host Talia Schlanger, the breakout star of Killers of the Flower Moon defended Scorsese from criticisms about the historical drama, while also urging audiences to seek out work by Indigenous filmmakers.has sparked conversations around how to tell Indigenous stories, and more importantly, who should tell those stories.
The film is based on David Grann's book of the same name about the 1920s Osage murders, in which the oil-rich Osage Nation in Oklahoma was targeted by hordes of white interlopers who murderedis Lily Gladstone, who plays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman of considerable wealth and status who tries to save her community. The protagonist of the story is Mollie's husband, Ernest Burkhart, played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
"I think it's really important that Marty has made a film that has made more people care about what that history is and want that perspective," she told Schlanger. "It challenges the audience and their own complicity with this by telling the story through Ernest's perspective, which is a really powerful thing for a filmmaker like Marty to be doing at this time.
"That desire to have more Mollie, to have more of the perspective, hopefully brings audiences to seek out more and more Native filmmakers because there's a lot out there."— a story about matriarchal love surviving colonialism — a young man stood up to express his opinion on how it contrasts"It's always paramount that people tell their own stories, but it's also really important that Native stories get the attention of these filmmakers like Scorsese….
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