Oscar-nominated actress Lily Gladstone is pleased that Indigenous people are getting better representation on the silver screen, including in her new film “Fancy Dance,” but warns there is an “ongoing genocide” of Native Americans that must be addressed.
Gladstone, 37, earned critical acclaim for her turn as an Osage woman locked in a duplicitous marriage to a murderous white husband in last year’s true crime epic “Killers of the Flower Moon” from Martin Scorsese.
She is now starring in “Fancy Dance,” about the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous people in America, most of them women.
The film — which premiered at the Sundance festival last year but is now hitting a limited number of theaters this month, and will stream on Apple TV+ from June 28 — is a work of fiction but feels like a documentary.
She says the film’s strength is in showcasing…
