Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When I sit down to talk about the new film Fancy Dance with its star, the Oscar-nominated breakout star of Hollywood’s awards season Lily Gladstone, we start a little off-piste with a quote from Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman , the 1970s television iteration of the feminist super heroine. It was that particular Wonder Woman who said: “Women are the wave of the future, and sisterhood is stronger than anything!” Gladstone smiles when I offer her the quote, at both the unexpected inclusion of Wonder Woman as an unlikely guest star in our conversation, but also at the prescience of her observation.
“Sisterhood is the strongest thing,” Gladstone says in reply. “Unfortunately, it’s become almost a subversive thing in Western society when, in worlds like the world I grew up in, and the world of [her new film] Fancy Dance , women lead and own and hold everything together. “There is a real cultural acceptance and acknowledgment of that in a way that you don’t necessarily see in the Western world.
So, it makes sisterhood almost feel like a rebellious act when it’s [actually] just the most natural thing in the world.” Gladstone is of Siksikaitsitapi and Niimiipuu heritage and grew up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana, near the Canadian border in central northern United States. In the world in which she was raised, the word aunty is defined as “little mother”, or “other mother”.
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