Martin Scorsese cast Lily Gladstone as Leonardo DiCaprio’s wife in Apple Original Film Killers Of The Flower Moon
With filming kicking off this spring, Martin Scorsese has cast the female lead for his highly anticipated new movie Killers of The Flower Moon.
The veteran director has hired actress Lily Gladstone, 34, to star opposite Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in the Apple Original Film based on a true story, Variety reported Thursday.
It’s a big break for Gladstone, who is relatively unknown with roles in just a handful of productions, including 2016’s independent drama Certain Women and 2019’s Showtime series Billions.
Big break: Lily Gladstone, 34, (pictured in 2018) has been cast as Leonardo DiCaprio’s wife in Martin Scorsese’s Apple Original Film Killers of The Flower Moon, it was reported Thursday
Killers Of The Flower Moon is an adaptation of David Grann’s bestselling crime book of the same name about the brutal murders of Osage Nation Native Americans in Oklahoma in the 1920s.
The murders became known as the Reign of Terror and became one of the first major cases to be investigated by the then newly formed FBI.
The murders began after oil was found on land belonging to the Osage nation.
Based on a true story: Scorsese directs drama about the brutal murders of Osage Nation Native Americans in Oklahoma in the 1920s after oil was discovered on their tribal land
Scorsese collaborators: Robert De Niro stars as powerful Oklahoma rancher William Hale, while DiCaprio plays Hale’s cousin Ernest Burkhart, who is married to an Osage woman
De Niro plays the mighty Oklahoma rancher William Hale.
DiCaprio plays Hale’s cousin Ernest Burkhart and Gladstone plays DiCaprio’s wife Mollie, a member of the Osage Nation.
Gladstone himself descends from the Blackfeet and Nez Perce tribes.
According to local Oklahoma news outlets, the filming will take place from spring to late summer in the Tulsa, Bartlesville and Osage County areas.
A virtual casting call for extras was announced last month.
The production reportedly has an estimated budget of $ 200 million and will be Scorsese’s first film since the 2019 Netflix hit The Irishman.
Ready for Stardom: Descending from the Blackfeet and Nez Perce tribes, Gladstone is relatively unknown with roles in just a handful of productions, including 2016’s independent drama Certain Women and 2019’s Showtime series Billions
History: Killers Of The Flower Moon is an adaptation of David Grann’s best-selling true crime book of the same name, and filming begins this spring in Oklahoma.