Lily Gladstone Takes on Leonardo DiCaprio in First ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Clip (Unique)

Forward of the movie’s October launch, Apple has shared a primary have a look at greatest actress hopeful Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon.

Within the clip, Gladstone goes toe-to-toe with Leonardo DiCaprio, enjoying just lately returned struggle veteran Ernest Burkhart who’s aggressively making an attempt to court docket Gladstone’s Mollie.

The Martin Scorsese-directed historic epic, based mostly on the David Grann novel of the identical identify, chronicles a sequence of murders of the Osage individuals following an oil growth and the next FBI investigations into the killings, which turned generally known as the Reign of Terror. Mollie and Ernest sit on the heart of the story, which follows their relationship as Mollie’s members of the family grow to be victims of the murders.

“The revelation for a lot of would be the wondrous Lily Gladstone as Mollie Kyle, the girl unlucky sufficient to marry gold-digger Ernest,” reads The Hollywood Reporter overview of the film out of the Cannes Movie Pageant. “It’s taken a director regularly criticized for his shortage of totally dimensional feminine characters not solely to offer one however to make her the wounded coronary heart of the film.”

Forward of Cannes, DiCaprio advised THR that “Lily has wonderful presence and energy. She spent months finding out Mollie Burkhart and her household, working extensively to know the intricacies of this lady, her relationship with Ernest and her legacy throughout the Osage group.”

Killers of the Flower Moon is due out Oct. 20 through Apple and Paramount, earlier than heading to Apple’s streaming service.