Lily Gladstone Was Drawn to Under the Bridge for Very Personal Reasons
glamour.comUnder the Bridge, then you know she gives a harrowing performance as Cam Bentland, a no-frills cop in Victoria, British Columbia, with an emotionally charged past.
As a law enforcement officer who takes it upon herself to investigate the death of 14-year-old Reena Virk, it's a mentally draining role that requires a certain kind of headspace—one that I imagine any psychologist would urge their client not to wade in for extended periods of time.For better or worse then, Gladstone got a crash course in compartmentalizing her Under the Bridge filming experience when she for the world premiere of Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon at the 76th annual Cannes Film Festival last May. “I left from set to go to Cannes, then left from Cannes to go to set and finish my last day of Under the Bridge,” she tells Glamour. “It was nuts.”From left: Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Lily Gladstone, and Leonardo DiCaprio at Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 20, 2023To make matters even more complicated, (for her role as Mollie Burkhart in Flowers) also had to contend with the writers strike at the same time that Under the Bridge was filming. “I remember [creator, executive producer, and writer] Quinn Shephard, [showrunner] Samir Mehta, and all of the other writers just scrambling to lock all of our scripts down because there were a number of little changes that just happened naturally in the course of shooting the series,” she says. “I'd be texting them little things like, ‘You know that thing you said about Cam?
We really want to include it, and we have to do it by midnight tonight.’ So there was little line pitches being texted about, and then as soon as the strike went into effect at midnight, those were our.
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