Lily Gladstone:

So the Marines recruited you to speak Navajo.

I was asked early on by my adviser in college if I was going to try to only target Native roles and warned me that I would be pigeonholed if I did so. And I have always resisted that, because I’m like, well, Native people are capable of everything. We have doctors, we have lawyers. We pop up every aspect of humanity.

So whatever character I play is naturally going to be imbued with being a Native woman, at least a little bit. So, it’s — even if I am kind of smashed into a box, there’s always a way of expanding it and breaking those boundaries, breaking the frame.

I just knew, if I didn’t start driving, I wasn’t going to see you again.