Lily Gladstone has detailed the importance of her film Killers Of The Flower Moon in being representative of Native Americans.
The actress, 37, bagged a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for her role as Mollie Kyle in the Martin Scorsese film.
Lily - who uses she/they pronouns - made history for her nod for Best Actress, becoming the first Native American to be nominated in the category.
Opening up about the film's success, she admitted that it was a long time coming and lamented how her grandmother's generation had not been able to see themselves represented on screen.
Appearing on Lorraine on Monday, Lily said: 'The film has done a remarkable good in bringing attention to what this was and highlighting these incredible indigenous actors and talent front and back, working in tandem with Osage Nation and not being precious about the script as it was, because it changed based on everything Martin found out from the community.'
Lily Gladstone has detailed the importance of her film Killers Of The Flower Moon in being representative of Native Americans
The actress, 37, bagged a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for her role as Mollie Kyle in the Martin Scorsese film (pictured in film with JaNae Collins and Cara Jade Myer)
Opening up about the film's success, she admitted that it was a long time coming and lamented how her grandmother's generation had not been able to see themselves represented on screen
Host Lorraine Kelly pointed out how far the world had come, saying as a child she never saw Native American actors actually playing Native American roles.
Lily said: 'When I was training in university in our makeup class we had a book that went back to the 1970s and there was a whole tutorial on how to do redface and make yourself look like a Native American.
'I was at school from 2004 to 2008 and this was still in a book that was used in our curriculum.'
She continued: 'The Oscars are in the 96th year and at the Globes I spoke to the upcoming generation, to all the little Native kids because I was speaking to my inner child who loved performance.
'But I'm also thinking about our elders. Since the Academy Awards have been around for 96 years, but my grandmother's generation and a lot of Native people. It really affected our sense of sense seeing ourselves in Westerns the way that they were in the 1940s, 50s, 60s...'
Lorraine cut in: 'It was white actors in bad wigs and terrible makeup.'
Lily went on: 'Absolutely. And my grandmother never got to be a young woman who saw herself represented as a leading lady in an epic film.
'This film really feels like it fits in that era of the Turner classic movie, of the Golden Age of cinema and it has these beautiful Native women front and centre taking our rightful place on screen.
She said: 'My grandmother never got to be a young woman who saw herself represented as a leading lady in an epic film. I hope it's inspiring to the younger generation and that it's restorative'
Killers of the Flower Moon sees Lily play Leonardo DiCaprio's wife Molly, an Osage woman whose family members are tragically murdered in a plot to seize their fortune
'I lost my grandma a couple of years ago. She loved movies and I wish she could have seen it. But I'm grateful and I hope it's inspiring to the younger generation and that it's restorative.'
Killers of the Flower Moon sees Lily play Leonardo DiCaprio's wife Molly, an Osage woman whose family members are tragically murdered in a plot to seize their fortune.
With her Golden Globe win for Best Actress this month, Lily, who is of Piegan Blackfeet (Siksikaitsitapi), Nez Perce (Nimíipuu) and European heritage, is now just the second Native actress recognized by the Globes.
The first was Irene Bedard, nominated in 1995 for the television movie Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee.
In her acceptance speech, Lily began by speaking in the Blackfeet language, before switching to English to say: 'This is a historic one, and it doesn't belong to just me.
'I'm holding it with all of my beautiful sisters in the film and my mother [in the film], Tantoo Cardinal.'
The star then noted that, in the past, Hollywood would create fictional Native languages instead of portraying them accurately and authentically.
She said: 'I'm so grateful that I can speak even a little bit of my language because in this business, Native actors used to speak their lines in English and then the sound mixers would run them backwards to accomplish Native languages on camera.
With her Golden Globe win for Best Actress this month, Lily, who is of Piegan Blackfeet (Siksikaitsitapi), Nez Perce (Nimíipuu) and European heritage, is now just the second Native actress recognized by the Globes
In her acceptance speech, Lily began by speaking in the Blackfeet language, before switching to English to say: 'This is a historic one, and it doesn't belong to just me'
'This is for every little res kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves, in our own words, with tremendous allies and tremendous trust with each other.'
Speaking about her Oscar nomination, Lily said it is 'a dream that you have when you’re young' that's 'beyond anything' she 'could have hoped for.'
The actress also revealed that she was on a Facetime call with her parents when the nominations were announced.
She said: 'I told my mom to flip the camera around, because I wanted to learn the news from their reaction. I didn’t expect that I was going to cry, but when I saw my parents react, it hit.'
