Leonardo DiCaprio performs Ernest Burkhart in the upcoming crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon, but he was at the start meant to painting a unique position in the movie.
DiCaprio, 48, was initially forged to play Bureau of Investigation agent Tom White in an previous model of the movie, which was more fascinated by the crime plot line. His previous position nonetheless seems in the film — played through Jesse Plemons — however DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese learned that the mission had to bring Lily Gladstone’s character, Ernest’s spouse, Mollie Burkhart, to the forefront as an alternative.
“It just didn’t really feel like it were given to the center of it,” DiCaprio said all over a joint interview with Gladstone, 37, for British Vogue printed on Tuesday, September 19. The actor defined that the early version of the movie was lacking the Osage viewpoint regardless of telling the true story of the homicide of 60 or extra Osage Native Americans that happened in Osage County, Oklahoma, between 1918 and 1931.
DiCaprio continued: “We weren’t immersed in the Osage story. There was this tiny, small scene between Mollie [who's Osage] and Ernest that provoked such emotion in us at the studying, and we just began to penetrate into what that dating was, as it was so twisted and strange and in contrast to anything else I’ve ever skilled prior to.”
In Killers of the Flower Moon, DiCaprio and Gladstone play married couple Ernest and Mollie. Ernest marries Mollie at his uncle Bill Hale’s (Robert De Niro) advice. Ernest and Bill then plan the systematic murder of Mollie’s family to acquire their “headrights,” which supplied them with annual royalties for the oil-rich land they owned.
DiCaprio referred to as the harrowing tale “a completely forgotten section of American historical past and an open wound that still festers.” Gladstone, who's a right away descendant of the Blackfeet Chief Red Crow, identified that the occasions that impressed the film befell “no longer that long ago.”
She added: “I don’t want to label this a western. I’m happy that it’s being categorised a tragedy.”
DiCaprio sang his costar’s praises all through the interview, recalling how Scorsese, 80, knew he sought after to solid Gladstone after assembly her by the use of Zoom.
“There was no studying. … Marty simply instinctively knew Lily was the one,” the Oscar winner stated, noting that there was a “truthfulness in [Lily’s] eyes” that came via “even over a computer scene.” (Though Gladstone was forged with out studying with DiCaprio, the actress read and auditioned for the role.)
DiCaprio additionally gushed about Gladstone’s “completely astonishing” efficiency in the movie. “She carries the complete film and the story,” he said.
In addition to centering an Osage character’s viewpoint in the movie, the Killers of the Flower Moon group sought after to collaborate with the real-world Osage group. Geoffrey Standing Bear, the Principal Chief of the Osage Nation, has fully recommended the mission.
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“All these other folks labored so exhausting with our people. … It was simply superb to see,” Chief Standing Bear told British Vogue. “I simply did a groundbreaking [a conventional rite celebrating the first day of development] for some elderly housing this morning. I used some Osage phrases and I stated, ‘Now I would like us all to try to speak as good Osage as Robert De Niro.’”
Killers of the Flower Moon hits theaters on October 20, 2023.
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