Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone SLAMMED Yellowstone as ‘deplorable’ – but admits she AUDITIONED several times for the series
Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone slammed Yellowstone as ‘deplorable’ over its depiction of the American West – but revealed she had previously auditioned for the show.
The actress, 37, who made history as the first Indigenous actor ever to win a Golden Globe when she took home the Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama award, branded the Kevin Costner hit series ‘delusional’ in a resurfaced interview with Variety.
She added: ‘No offense to the Native talent in that. I auditioned several times. That’s what we had.’
Yellowstone has previously been called a ‘red state show’ and ‘anti-woke’ by some critics – which has been fiercely rebuked by its creator Taylor Sheridan.
Sheridan told The Atlantic: ‘They refer to it as ‘the conservative show’ or ‘the Republican show’ or ‘the red-state Game of Thrones and I just sit back laughing.
Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone slammed Yellowstone as ‘deplorable’ over its depiction of the American West – but revealed she had previously auditioned for the show
‘I’m like, ‘Really?’ The show’s talking about the displacement of Native Americans and the way Native American women were treated and about corporate greed and the gentrification of the West, and land-grabbing. That’s a red-state show?’
The New York Times referred to the show as ‘a conservative fantasy liberals should watch’ and a negative review from The Guardian called it ‘Game of Thrones set on a ranch.’
It’s a far cry from when, just six years ago, the New York Post dubbed the Sheridan-written Jeff Bridges film Hell or High Water as being ‘almost undone by its leftist leanings.’
Writer Kyle Smith then dubbed that film, which saw Sheridan nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe: ‘A desperado drama wrapped around a Bernie Sanders campaign speech.’
He told the New York Times, however, that: ‘People perceive all my stuff as ‘red state,’ and it’s the most ridiculous thing. If you truly look at this show or Sicario or Wind River, these are pretty wildly progressive notions.’
Sheridan said that his main aim is ‘responsible storytelling.’
‘I wanted there to be real consequences. I wanted to never, ever shy away from, “This was the price.”‘
He added later on that his politics – in particular, critiques in the past of both former President Donald Trump and the concept of white privilege – are more complex.
The actress, 37, who made history as the first Indigenous actor ever to win a Golden Globe when she took home the Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama award, branded theseries ‘delusional’ in a resurfaced interview with Variety (pictured with Leonardo DiCaprio in the film)
Sheridan has previously hit back at liberal media critics of the series, which he feels has painted it as a ‘red state show’ or conservative, arguing that anyone who thinks that ‘probably never watched it’
Sheridan told The Atlantic his main aim is ‘responsible storytelling.’ ‘I wanted there to be real consequences. I wanted to never, ever shy away from, This was the price’
Gladstone made history at the 81st Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills on Sunday
The star then noted that, in the past, Hollywood would create fictional Native languages instead of portraying them accurately and authentically
‘I’m so grateful that I can speak even a little bit of my language because in this business, Native actors used to speak their lines in English and then the sound mixers would run them backwards to accomplish Native languages on camera,’ Gladstone explained.
She then thanked Chief Standing Bear and the Osage Nation as well as Scorsese, and her costars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro, for being ‘allies’.
‘This is for every little res kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves, in our own words, with tremendous allies and tremendous trust with each other.’
