Lily Gladstone reveals the current “dream” she has amid her rising star status.
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE’s annual Oscars portfolio, the 37-year-old actress details what she’d like to host one day Saturday night live.
“It was probably a dream I kept on my own,” Gladstone says of guesting on the late-night sketch comedy series, which is currently in its 49th season.
“It’s like my parents — and I think that’s what people say when you want to act and they want to encourage you as a kid — it’s like, ‘Oh, you’re going to get an Oscar one day.’ So it almost becomes a platitude,” she continues. “But what I’ve always wanted to do if I had this moment is host SNL.”
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Killers of the Flower Moon Star Lily Gladstone makes history as the first Indian woman to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress
Gladstone was nominated for Best Actress at this year’s Academy Awards for her performance as Mollie Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon.
Her character in the film — which can be streamed on Apple TV+ — is based on a real-life woman who was a member of the Osage Nation.
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Lily Gladstone.
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Members of Mollie’s family, including her mother and sisters, were killed by men over their rights to oil reserves located beneath their reservation in Oklahoma.
Martin Scorsese’s film also stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons.
Gladstone, who is of Siksikaitsitapi and Niimiipuu descent, is the first Native American actress to be nominated for an Oscar. She is the fourth Indigenous actress ever to receive a nomination in this category.
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Lily Gladstone.
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Previously, Merle Oberon was the first woman nominated in this category in 1935 for her role as Kitty Vana in the Sidney Franklin film Dark angel. More than 60 years later, in 2003, Keisha Castle-Hughes was nominated for the role of Paikea, a young girl who fights for the respect of her family in Whale rider.
The last Indigenous woman to be nominated in the category before Gladstone was Yalitza Aparicio for her role in the 2018 film. Roma. Aparicio played Cleo, a maid living in Mexico City in the 1970s.
Oberon, Castle-Hughes and Aparicio are British, Kiwi and Mexican respectively Diversity.
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Lily Gladstone.
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Lily Gladstone shares Leonardo DiCaprio’s text celebrating her Killers of the flower moon Oscar nomination
Looking ahead to the upcoming Academy Awards, Gladstone tells PEOPLE what she’s most excited about for the big night.
“I think just being there and absorbing the magnitude of the impact that this movie has made,” she says. “I’m so excited to share this.”
As for who he plans to bring with him to celebrate the monumental moment, Gladstone notes, “I’ll have family. Family with me [and] a family cheering from home.”
The 96th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will be broadcast live on Sunday, March 10, from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California, beginning at 7:00 PM ET.
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