‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Rewrites Cut Down ‘Three Pages of Dialogue’ for Lily Gladstone’s Audition; She Lost 30 Pounds During Six-Month Shoot

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Lily Gladstone spoke to her “Certain Women” director Kelly Reichardt for Interview magazine (before the SAG-AFTRA strike) and confirmed reports that Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” underwent significant rewrites during its development.

The script changed so much that the scene Gladstone was given for her audition got reduced from three pages of straight dialogue to “a scene that had minimal dialogue.” “Before the rewrites, I had three pages of some pretty mouthy dialogue,” Gladstone said about the “Flower Moon” audition process. “But I was struggling so much with the scenes that when COVID shut everything down and the project went quiet for a minute, I assumed that I’d blown the audition.

About a year later, I got a request to Zoom with Martin Scorsese.” “And then I got new sides sent to me that had beats,” she continued. “Suddenly it was a scene that had minimal dialogue—it was that dinner scene, the first date where Mollie [Gladstone’s character] is feeling out Ernest [Leonardo DiCaprio’s character and her husband in the film].

And I was like, ‘Oh man, I can plug a character in here now. This is amazing.’ Because I’d heard that the rewrites completely did a 180.