Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone has made no secret of her love for Star Wars, particularly the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi. The Golden Globe winner (and Oscar contender) informed the New York Times she had a “sturdy want to be an Ewok at age 5”—that’s how deep the love is.
Gladstone’s lovely nerdiness has emerged in different awards-season interviews, too. In a roundtable with fellow Finest Actress contenders hosted by the Hollywood Reporter, she cited Ewoks as certainly one of her first appearing function fashions; they have been her “childhood inspirations, I needed to be an Ewok, and that’s what began all this insanity.” That’s the cutest factor ever, to be trustworthy, and we love this origin story for an unimaginable expertise we’d prefer to see working in style sooner or later.
Ewoks obtained one more nod in Gladstone’s interview with Rolling Stone. “I used to be solely into Star Wars as a result of I used to be into the Ewoks,” she informed the journal. “I didn’t know this then, however they’re such a beacon of Indigenous resistance. And so they rocked it. They introduced the Empire down, I’m sorry.”
Kathleen Kennedy, that’s your cue to get on the road and solid Gladstone in one of the new Star Wars movies—her love for the franchise is real, and she or he clearly has superior appearing chops. What sort of function would you wish to see Gladstone tackle within the galaxy far, far-off?
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