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Lily Gladstone’s highschool classmates knew she was destined for moviemaking greatness.
The “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor – who earned a milestone lead actress Oscar nomination for her efficiency within the Martin Scorsese epic on Tuesday – posted a photo to her Instagram web page in 2017 of her Class of 2004 highschool yearbook, through which she was heralded her as “almost definitely to win an Oscar.”
“Nicely, MTHS class of 2004 – making an attempt my finest, obtained surprisingly near a nod, 13 years out the gate. You guys referred to as it!” her caption learn on the time.
Gladstone initially posted the picture after she garnered some award buzz for her efficiency in 2016’s “Sure Ladies,” she stated in an interview on Tuesday with Leisure Weekly.
It has since resurfaced because it turned increasingly more evident that Gladstone was considered one of this yr’s prime Oscar contenders. It even caught her “Flower Moon” costar Leonardo DiCaprio’s eye, she stated, who texted her about it when it first began to development.
That is Gladstone’s first Oscar nomination. She gained a Golden Globe for her efficiency in “Flower Moon” as Mollie Burkhart, an Osage lady who’s the spouse of DiCaprio’s Ernest Burkhart, earlier this month.
Different indigenous actresses who’ve beforehand earned Oscar recognition within the class embrace Keisha Fortress-Hughes for “Whale Rider,” Yalitza Aparicio for “Roma” and Merle Oberon for 1935’s “Darkish Angel.”
Gladstone grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana, in accordance with The Guardian, telling the publication in 2017 that she lived on reservation land till the age of 11. She has tribal affiliations that embrace Kainai, Amskapi Piikani and Nimi’ipuu First Nations.