A closer look at the Lily Gladstone interview for ELLE Canada's March issue, on newsstands Monday, February 19.
"I don’t really come into these spaces and push my presence to the front. The audience will know you’re feeling it if you’re feeling it."co-star Leonardo DiCaprio—wearing Valentino: a devastatingly beautiful black cashmere cape that featured abstract floral embellishments and seemed to have been made for her alone.
That also describes Indigenous women in a nutshell, especially in Hollywood. We’re rarely portrayed as people with layers or dynamism, but Gladstone, who has Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, never makes herself smaller. “I’m not sure I know how to dissolve into the background,” she tells me via Zoom, leaning in so close to the screen that it cuts off the top of her head.
Now, her performance in the Martin Scorsese-helmed Killers has made her the Golden Globes’ first Indigenous nominee—and winner—in the category of Best Actress in a Motion Picture—Drama and the first Indigenous person in history to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. Who better to challenge common misconceptions than Gladstone, who’s been known to fight for better representation as well as equity and equality, even when it carries a cost.
Last fall, Gladstone was photographed—sign in hand, dancing a little and ready to fight—protesting with fellow SAG-AFTRA members in Times Square. The image isa contrast to her onscreen work, which is typically introspective and focused on quietness, subtlety and movement. “I don’t really come into these spaces and push my presence to the front,” says Gladstone. She works from the heart, where she says her spirit lives. “The audience will know you’re feeling it if you’re feeling it.
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