Global Courant 2023-05-21 22:17:18
They met with the international press, after the premiere of “Killers of the Flower Moon”.
It took more than half an hour for Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese to enter the Cannes Film Festival Press Room to discuss Killers of the Flower Moon. There was no traffic jam delay on the Croisette, as there had been on Wednesday noon with Johnny Depp. Simply, they were more than necessary in their meeting with the photographers.
But already sitting before the international press, the interpreters and the director – there were also Lily Gladstone and Chief Standing Bear, from the Osage tribe – answered each of the questions.
It is known: they are not usually too sharp, and there were even a couple about what they thought of Ukraine and Russian interference, and how they filmed in 2021, in the midst of the Covid epidemic.
Good boys. Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese on the red carpet at Cannes. AP Photo
DiCaprio, who spoke the least in the little more than half an hour that the meeting with the international press lasted, praised Scorsese’s ability to capture what he called “the banality of evil.” “What Marty does so incredibly well is that he’s able to expose the humanity of even the most twisted and sinister characters you can imagine.”
Killers of the Flower Moon, along with Indiana Jones and the Call of Fate, the Festival’s most anticipated films, and both outside the competition for the Palme d’Or, focuses more on the characters of DiCaprio and De Niro, the relationship between the nephew and uncle in the town of Fairfax, who in the investigation of who committed the murders of the Osage natives in Oklahoma, in the ’20s.
“Marty is able to expose the humanity of even the most twisted and sinister characters you can imagine,” Leo said. AFP photo
It doesn’t mean anything, but after the screening of the three-hour and 26-minute film, of which DiCaprio is also a producer, they received a 9-minute ovation, the longest so far in this edition of the Festival, at the Grand Thèâtre Hall. Lumiere.
“It was the culmination of years of work,” Martin Scorsese said when asked about such a reception on Saturday night.
Return. Martin Scorsese had brought “After Hours” to Cannes in… 1985. Photo AFP
About how his approach to history was, told in the book by journalist David Grann, Scorsese referred to the importance of spending time with the Osage people. “When I was introduced to the book, I said that if we approached the Osage Nation, we had to be very respectful.”
De Niro, stinging
And Robert De Niro did not miss the opportunity to criticize the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, comparing him to his own character.
With the spike plugs, De Niro took advantage of a hole and hit Donald Trump. AFP photo
Everything started with a confession by the actor, who went to Buenos Aires last year to shoot scenes from the Nada series, by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat. The Raging Bull star admitted that he had trouble understanding and connecting with William Hale. “I don’t understand much about my character. Part of him is sincere. The other part, where he’s betraying (the Osage tribesmen), no. We became much more aware of that dichotomy after what happened with George Floyd and systemic racism.”
And that’s where he took the opportunity to draw a parallel between his character and Donald Trump, whose name the actor initially refused to say out loud at the press conference. “That guy is stupid,” he said of the former president.
Lily Gladstone, who plays Mollie, of the Osage tribe, and who marries DiCaprio’s character, opposite Scorsese. AFP photo
To all this, Lily Gladstone, who plays Mollie Burkhart, the Osage wife of DiCaprio’s character, recalled that the Osages went to William Hale’s funeral, denying their involvement in the brutal murders of members of the tribe.
De Niro spoke again at the press conference, referring to blind loyalty to evil men. “There are people who still believe that they can do a good job. How crazy is that. I had to say it ”, he closed, and drew almost the same ovation with which the most wanted trio of the Festival had been received upon entering the room.
Do you remember? It was De Niro who remembered that they were together, here, in 1976, with “Taxi Driver.” And they won the Palme d’Or. Photo AFP
Scorsese, now 80 years old, had been with his friend De Niro here in Cannes in 1976, when they presented Taxi Driver. And Scorsese’s last time at the Festival was with the presentation of After Hours, in distant 1985.
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