The Long, Strange, Beautiful Road to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon. (Courtesy Apple TV+)
My father-in-law and my late husband, both accomplished actors, wished for a time when Hollywood would make movies about real Native Americans. Now my daughter is living it.
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It’s 1985, and I am 24—a few years removed from smoking cigarettes in front of the Baskin-Robbins in Brooklyn Heights.
I’m in Georgetown, South Carolina, and I jump off the back of the production van and directly into the path of two men wearing Wrangler jeans and cowboy boots. I recognize the older one, his silver hair braided with red ribbon, as the ac…
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