, the great US filmmaker Martin Scorsese is sitting with me in a hotel suite overlooking New York's Central Park lamenting the state of contemporary Hollywood films. In a wide-ranging interview for the BBC's Talking Movies programme, he says of the current spate of blockbuster franchises:"They're not for me… as I get older I'm trying to figure out where the hell to spend my time. I can't do it with them.
It's Scorsese's first western but it's also a crime drama, his stock-in-trade, and it certainly features the macho-posturing men and violence that have long defined his work. His earlier films, focusing on New York gangsters among others, were stories of characters with motivations not too dissimilar from those of the unscrupulous businessmen in Killers of the Flower Moon.
Gladstone's performance has become one of the big talking points of the film. Scorsese spotted her in Kelly Reichardt's 2016 drama film Certain Women."I saw that face and I saw what was going on with her eyes and I said 'This is the one, she's really interesting'," he recalls of the impact she made on him. In the emerging Oscars race, Gladstone is campaigning to become the first indigenous performer to be nominated for a best actress Academy Award.