>> Stephen: WELCOME BACK TO "THE LATE SHOW"!
MY NEXT GUEST TONIGHT IS AN ACTRESS WHO JUST RECEIVED AN
OSCAR NOMINATION FOR HER LEADING ROLE IN "KILLERS OF
THE FLOWER MOON." ROLE IN "KILLERS OF
THE FLOWER MOON." >> Stephen: PLEASE WELCOME TO
"THE LATE SHOW," LILY GLADSTONE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
♪ ♪ I LOVE THIS!
FANTASTIC! PLEASE, PLEASE, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH. I THINK YOU MIGHT BE THE FIRST
GUESS TO EVER COME ON WITH THEIR OWN TRAIN.
>> AND A VALENTINE, HAVE A VALENTINE.
>> Stephen: SHOULD I OPEN IT NOW?
THIS IS LOVELY! >> GOT A LONG TAIL.
>> Stephen: IT SAYS "BE MINE," ISN'T THAT LOVELY?
EVIE, YOU NEEDN'T WATCH THIS PART.
THIS IS SO LOVELY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
>> ABSOLUTELY, THANKS FOR HAVING ME ON!
>> Stephen: HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO YOU AND
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR OSCAR NOMINATION.
WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY -- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
IT'S AN AMAZING FILM, SCORSESE KEEPS FINDING NEW VOCABULARY TO
TELL STORIES. TEN NOMINATIONS FOR THIS FILM,
BEST ACTRESS FOR YOU, FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN TO BE
NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR IN A LEAD ROLE.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WHAT WAS THAT -- FIRST OF ALL,
HOW DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT THE NOMINATION?
DO YOU GET A CALL IN THE MORNING WITH THE NOBEL PRIZE?
WHERE WERE YOU? >> WE LEARN LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE
DOES, BY WATCHING. SO I WAS IN OSAGE COUNTY ON THE
OSAGE RESERVATION AND FACE TIMING WITH MY PARENT'S SO IF IT
WERE TO GO THE WAY THAT IT DID, HAVE A FOOT IN BOTH WORLDS I
GUESS. SO I WAS ON FACETIME WITH MY MOM
AND DAD AND IT WAS FUNNY, MY MOM VERY NATURALLY DID THE MOM THING
IT AT THE CAMERA UP TO THE TV SO I COULD SEE WHAT THEY WERE
SEEING. COULDN'T REALLY SEE -- JUST
LITTLE WHITE LINES OF LIGHT WITH NO DEFINITION.
I WAS LIKE I CAN'T TELL WHAT'S GOING ON SO SHE HELD THE PHONE
OUT AND MAKE SURE THEY WERE BOTH IN THERE.
SO SHE WAS HOLDING THE PHONE UP WHEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME IN.
I COULDN'T HEAR IT, BUT I COULD TELL BY THEIR REACTIONS.
>> Stephen: YOU ARE RIGHT IN THEIR FACE.
THAT'S EXTRAORDINARY. YOU COULD HAVE READ IT SOMEPLACE
ELSE BECAUSE HER HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK IN 2004 I'M AT THIS
PHOTO GOING VIRAL. THEY CALLED IT 20 YEARS AGO MOST
LIKELY TO WIN AND OSCAR. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
SO THEY -- WAS EVERYONE AWARE THAT THEY CALLED IT 20 YEARS
AGO? >> YEAH.
AND IT'S OUR 20 YEAR REUNION SO THE 20 YEAR REUNION IS KIND OF
BUILDING AROUND A WATCH PARTY FOR THE OSCARS, IT SEEMS, WHICH
IS REALLY SWEET, THE INITIAL PLAN WAS TO HAVE IT IN OUR OLD
HIGH SCHOOL THEATER, BUT KIND OF REACHED CAPACITY, THERE WERE
REALLY ENOUGH SEATS IN OUR OLD THEATER.
>> Stephen: YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO TO YOUR 20TH
REUNION BECAUSE YOU WILL BE AT THE OSCARS.
>> I WILL WAVED EVERYBODY FROM STAGE, I GUESS.
>> Stephen: THAT'S NICE. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE LOVE STORY
OF MOLLY AND ERNEST BURKART. IT'S AN UNUSUAL LOVE STORY BUT
THEY DO APPEAR FOR ALL THE BETRAYAL AND HOW DARK THE STORY
IS, THERE DOES APPEAR TO BE LOVE THERE.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THAT RELATIONSHIP BASED ON WHAT YOU
KNOW IF THE CHARACTER AND WHAT YOUR RESEARCH IS?
BECAUSE IT'S INCREDIBLY COMPLEX. >> YEAH, IT'S A LITTLE TWOFOLD
IN THAT ONE IT IS TRUE TO THE HISTORY, PARTICULARLY HER
GRANDDAUGHTER, WHO I GOT TO MEET AND I CAN JUST SEE THAT'S WHERE
SHE PROBABLY -- HOW HE DREW A LOT OF INSPIRATION FROM HOW HE
SKETCHED ON THE BOOK BUT A MEETING WITH 250 MEMBERS PRESENT
FROM THE GRAY HORSE DISTRICT WHERE SHE WAS FROM AND MARGIE
WENT UP AND SAID YOU'VE GOT TO REMEMBER YOU ARE IN LOVE.
HE INSISTED TO THE DAY HE DIED THAT SHE WAS A GOOD ONE, AS HE
WOULD SAY. THERE WAS A LEGACY IN THE KIDS,
PEOPLE REMEMBER THEIR KIDS BEING VERY FUN-LOVING AND CLOSE TO
EACH OTHER AND EVEN AFTER ERNEST HAD GOTTEN OUT OF PRISON HIS SON
COWBOY WOULD GO PICK HIM UP AND DRIVE AROUND WITH HIM, GAVE HIM
THE NICKNAME ALL DYNAMITE. >> Stephen: BECAUSE HE USED
DYNAMITE TO BLOW UP THE HOUSES OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE STANDING
UP? >> BECAUSE OF HIS GUILT AND THE
COMPLICITY OF IT. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, YET IT
IS. THERE WAS REAL LOVE IN THIS
FAMILY. THESE KIDS HAD WHAT WE CAN
ASSUME WAS A HAPPY HOME LIFE BECAUSE THEY GREW INTO VERY
FUN-LOVING PEOPLE WHO LOVE EACH OTHER A LOT.
SO THERE WAS THAT ELEMENT AND THEN IN OUR FIRST MEETING, THE
FIRST TIME THAT I ZOOMED WITH THEM TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE
SCRIPT CHANGES, IT VERY MUCH OCCURRED TO ME THAT THIS LOVE
STORY AND SERVE AS A GREATER ANALOGY FOR THE BIGGER BETRAYAL
HERE OF COLONIZATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, THE AMOUNT OF
TRUST ON TRIBAL PARTS IN THESE RELATIONSHIPS AND THESE TREATY
RELATIONSHIPS, THAT HAVEN'T BEEN HONORED BUT HAVE BEEN LIKE
SYSTEMICALLY OVER TIME JUST BETRAYED OUR OWN SOVEREIGNTY
BEING ERODED, I COULD SEE THIS LOVE STORY SERVES AS A NICE
LITTLE MICROCOSM FOR THAT LARGER CONVERSATION.
>> Stephen: IS IT TRUE, AND IF TRUE, I LOVE THIS, THAT DURING
THE DASH YOU KNOW, THE COVID LOCKDOWNS OF 2020 YOU APPLY FOR
A JOB AT THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE?
>> I WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REGISTERING FOR A DATA ANALYTICS
COURSE SO I COULD GET PAID FOR IT.
KIND OF VOLUNTEER FOR CITIZEN SCIENCE OF COURSE BUT I WAS
STAYING THE COUNTY SOUTH WHERE THE MURDER HORNETS HAD SETTLED
IN, I HAVE A PART PROTECTIVE, ALMOST MATERNAL LOVE FOR BEES,
PARTICULARLY BUMBLEBEES SO IT JUST KIND OF FELT LIKE A PURPOSE
CALLING ME. >> Stephen: DISSES YOU WITH
YOUR BELOVED BEES. >> AND THOSE ARE HONEYBEES.
>> Stephen: WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT BEES?
>> SO MUCH. I PUT HONEY IN EVERYTHING.
IT'S MY GO-TO FOR EVERY LITTLE RASH OR CUT, IT'S JUST HONEY.
IT KIND OF TRACES BACK TO 2018, SETTLING INTO WINTER, IT WAS
RIGHT BEFORE I SHOT -- IT WAS ANOTHER SORT OF PAUSE IN MY
CAREER AND I WAS LOOKING FOR PURPOSE AND I WAS BRINGING MY
DOG BACK FROM A WALK AND SHE JUST FIXATED ON THIS LITTLE BUZZ
AND THE SUCCULENTS IN FRONT OF OUR HOUSE AND IT WAS A BEAT, SHE
TENDS TO EAT BEES SO I JUST SCOOPED IT UP SO SHE WOULDN'T
GET STUNG AND IT WAS A LITTLE CHUNKY BUMBLEBEE, TRY BELTED
TRICOLORED BUMBLEBEE, WHICH IS IN INDIGENOUS SPECIES AND I
MOVED HIM TO THE BACK PORCH AND TWO DAYS LATER HE WAS STILL
THERE LIKE LOOKING INSIDE LIKE HE WAS WANTINGTO COME IN.
I THINK MAYBE HE HAD FOUND A HEAT VENT BUT HE WAS JUST
SITTING THERE JUST LOOKING INSIDE, SO I BROUGHT HIM IN,
MADE A LITTLE MIXTURE OF HONEY AND WATER AND JUST KEPT THEM
GOING FOR ANOTHER FEW WEEKS AND LEARN ABOUT HIS SPECIES.
THEY'VE GOT AN INCREDIBLE GENOME.
>> Stephen: YOU HAD A PET BEE? >> I HAD A PET BEE!
FEELS ABOVE! [LAUGHS]
>> Stephen: A RICH AND INTERESTING LIFE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE, IT WAS LOVELY TO MEET YOU.
"KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON" IS NOW STREAMING GLOBALLY ON
APPLE TV+. LILY GLADSTONE, EVERYBODY, WE
WILL BE RIGHT BACK.
