Lily Gladstone, winning awards for her role as Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, has taken the time to shout out her favourite Star Wars characters, the Ewoks, describing them as “a beacon of indigenous resistance.”
Gladstone recently shared that the furry creatures from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi were her “childhood inspirations” while taking part in an actress roundtable for The Hollywood Reporter. She also revealed that they helped inspire her to be an actor, explaining, “I wanted to be an Ewok, and that’s what started all this madness.” During another interview with Rolling Stone, Gladstone talked more about why Ewoks inspired her as a kid.
“I was only into Star Wars because I was into the Ewoks,” Gladstone explained. “I didn’t know this then, but they’re such a beacon of Indigenous resistance. And they rocked it. They brought the Empire down, I’m sorry.”
See Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon only on Apple TV.
