Leonardo DiCaprio Breaks Silence After Getting Snubbed by the Academy, Sends a Heartfelt Message to Lily Gladstone
Leonardo DiCaprio, the eligible bachelor of Hollywood, is not only known for his affinity for women below the age of 25 but also for his great acting skills. The American actor played the protagonist, Ernest Burkhart, in the Martin Scorsese-led drama Killers of The Flower Moon. With 10 nominations, Killers Of The Flower Moon is followed by Emma Stone’s Poor Things and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
The Aviator star recently reacted to Lily Gladstone’s Oscar nomination in the best actress category for Killers Of The Flower Moon.
Leonardo DiCaprio On Lily Gladstone’s Oscar Nomination For Best Actress
Academy Award-winning star Leonardo DiCaprio recently took to Instagram to express his happiness for his native American co-star Lily Gladstone. The 37-year-old actor is nominated in the category of best actress for the critically acclaimed project of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of The Flower Moon. He posted about Lily Gladstone’s success and even congratulated her for the nomination.
The post mentioned
“Congratulations to my dear friend @LilyGladstone for making Oscars history, as the first Native American woman to be nominated for Best Actress in Killers of the Flower Moon,”
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The post further mentioned
“The fourth Indigenous actress to ever earn a nomination in the category. And to this powerful film’s nine other nominations – telling this story with all of you has been an honor. And to this powerful film’s nine other nominations – telling this story with all of you has been an honor.”
Leonardo DiCaprio has not been nominated in the Best Actor category for Killers Of The Flower Moon. The prestigious organization snubbed the six-time Academy Award actor. Martin Scorsese’s Killers of The Flower Moon spoke about history, oppression, and violence. The movie dealt with the oppression inflicted on the Osage tribe for their lands.
Leonardo DiCaprio On Why Lily Gladstone Was The Perfect Choice For Mollie
During an interview with the reputed media outlet Deadline, Leonardo DiCaprio spoke about Killers of The Flower Moon and what led to the casting of Lily Gladstone as Mollie Burkhart in the movie. The Titanic star said
“I knew it when we left the Zoom [meeting with her] because of the look in Marty’s eyes. I had essentially gone and done another movie. We quickly got on this hourlong Zoom. I think they had spoken before but in a lot of ways you could see she was so representative of this woman and not only from a moral but a philosophical level, her speaking about the relationship between Native Americans and the United States government, and who this woman was and her own heritage.”
He further shared
“She just embodied it immediately, in that Zoom. And there was no reading. It was us, asking her questions and trying to understand on a deeper level what this relationship was, and who she was. And at the end of it, Marty just had this look in his eye. He said, ‘Okay, Rick [Yorn],’– that’s our manager – ‘hire her.’ I’m like, whoa, really? Marty? We didn’t read. Are you sure you don’t want to read? He’s like, ‘no, no, no, no, no. I don’t want to mess around. This is it. She is Molly.’ I said, okay, great. And boy, was she ever.”
With an IMDb rating of 7.7 out of 10. Killers of the Flower Moon can be streamed on Apple TV+ on rent.
