Lily Gladstone has responded to Devery Jacobs‘ criticisms of Killers of the Flower Moon. Jacobs previously tweeted that watching the Martin Scorsese drama brought forth deep emotions based on its “unrelenting and unnecessarily graphic” portrayals of the 1920s murders of Osage people.
The film follows the real-life killings of the Osage after oil was found on their land in Oklahoma. Gladstone won the Golden Globe for her portrayal of Mollie Burkhart, an Osage Nation woman whose family was murdered by her in-laws for oil inheritances.
Gladstone told Rolling Stone in a new interview that Jacobs’ “reaction is a response to a lot of trauma” that Native women endure. “I don’t want to bring heat back on her for this because I think that’s unfair.
Her reaction is hers,” Gladstone said of Jacobs. “We’re friends. I crashed on her couch in Toronto when Certain Women played at TIFF.” Gladstone continued, “Her reaction is a response to a lot of trauma that particularly Native women feel seeing these things for the first time.
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