Lily Gladstone on new film ‘Memory Police’: about ‘a systematic effort to erase your sense of who you are, your memories, your language, your culture’


With a new Academy Award nomination for Lead Actress for her role as Molly Kyle in Martin Scorsese’s film Moonflower KillersLily Gladstone is set to enter sci-fi territory with the upcoming film Memory police— a move that would also reunite her with Scorsese, and she is set to executive produce.

“It’s on an unnamed island in an unnamed place, in an unnamed time,” Gladstone said of the new film, during Q&A session after Q&A session. Moonflower Killers The show is in Los Angeles on Sunday. “So it doesn’t happen anywhere, and therefore everywhere.”

Memory police It will be directed by Reed Morano (The Handmaid’s Tale, Meadowland), with text by Charlie Kaufman, adapted from Yoko Ogawa’s novel of the same name.

“It was edited by Charlie Kaufman, so it’s classified as science fiction, but in the way (in previous Kaufman films),” Gladstone continued. Eternal sunshine (From a pure mind) or A metaphor sent (New York) was science fiction. It takes place a lot in the subconscious and of course deals with themes of memory and tyranny.

In Ogawa’s novel, the story follows a writer who lives on an island controlled by a hidden force that makes people forget en masse. However, some islanders are willing to risk everything to preserve their dwindling memories.

Gladstone is the first Native American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award. She also won a Golden Globe for Lead Actress last month and was also nominated for a SAG Award Moonflower Killers. I noticed that Memory police She appeals because it’s “the kind of story that could happen everywhere. I think that anyone who comes from a global culture or history where there’s been a systematic effort to erase your sense of identity, your memories, your language, your culture — in this film, the birds disappear because they’re considered unnecessary.” “

in Moonflower KillersGladstone stars as Molly Kyle, an oil-rich Osage woman who marries Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), only to discover he is part of a plot to murder and rob the Osage Nation.

Gladstone Independent Film 2023 Fantasy dance, directed and co-written by Erica Tremblay, was recently picked up for distribution by Apple Original Films. In the film, Gladstone plays Jax, a woman who kidnaps her niece from her white grandparents, hoping to find the child’s missing mother and reunite her family. Gladstone told Deadline she feels that way Fantasy dance It resonates a lot with Moonflower Killers“It’s the same place, in many ways, the same story, just a hundred years later,” she said.

Gladstone is also set to direct Morrisa Maltz requitea companion piece to Maltz The unknown country, which Gladstone co-wrote and starred in. Plus it has the limited TV series under the bridge, where she stars alongside Riley Keough, Anoop Desai and Archie Punjabi. The series follows the true story of a murdered teenage girl and the seven teens accused of her murder, and is scheduled to premiere on April 27.

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