has had quite a year — and it’s only June. In addition to winning the for Best Actress (in addition to a slew of other awards) and getting an Oscar nomination for her role in , the Native American actress has also starred in a and served on a jury at Cannes. But it's Gladstone’s latest project, , which opens in select theaters Friday and streams on Apple TV+ beginning June 28, that has kicked off this string of high-profile successes.
“My year actually started in January [2023], when premiered at Sundance ahead of ,” Gladstone, who is Blackfeet/Nimíipuu, told Yahoo Entertainment. “I knew I was kind of kissing my indie cred goodbye that year, so it was nice to start out on a movie that was so close to my heart.” , directed by Erica Tremblay, of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation, stars Gladstone (who uses she/they pronouns) as Jax, a woman on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma who is taking care of her niece, Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson), after the girl’s mother goes missing.
When child protective services takes Roki from Jax to live with her white grandparents, Jax and Roki head out on a road trip, hopefully finding answers along the way. The film takes on not only the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis but also other Native issues like poverty and adoption policies as well. , though, is that it’s told from the Native perspective of its Indigenous director, writers and stars.
“Oftentimes whenever you see a true crime case around an Indigenous issue o.