Leonardo DiCaprio is right: Hollywood has a problem to solve with Native Americans

Those who are passionate about Hollywood know well that Leonardo Dicaprio he almost never gives interviews and this is why, when he speaks, it is almost always to support a cause close to his heart. In this case, let’s talk about the promotion of Killers of the Flower Moon, the new film by Martin Scorsese that we will finally see at the cinema from October 19th in which he stars together with the actress Lyda Gladstone. «Lily is absolutely amazing in this film. She carries the entire film and the story forward,” says the actor a British Vogue in an interview given before the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Leonardo DiCaprio then explains that Scorsese immediately knew she was the right actress – in Killers of the Flower Moon takes on the role of Mollie Burkhart, the wife of Ernst, played by DiCaprio, a man who lives on the Osage reservation in Oklahoma in the 1920s – because of the “sincerity” that shines through his eyes. «There was no reading of the part. Martin knew instinctively that Lily was the one. I’ve never seen him meet someone and have this gravitational pull and instinct to say, ‘Let’s not wait another minute.‘”.

What is particularly close to Leonardo DiCaprio’s heart, more than his numerous colleagues on set – from Robert De Niro to Jesse Plemons, from Cara Jade Myers to JaNae Collins – is, however, the news story around which the film is built: a series of murders that occurred within the Osage community under investigation by the FBI. “It’s a completely forgotten part of American history and an open wound that still burns. Hollywood has a long history and a mixed past in the representation of Native Americans. We must do more. We are about to deal with our past. The more these stories can be told truthfully, the more healing can happen,” says DiCaprio, happy that Gladstone is, in fact, the true protagonist of the film alongside him.