Lily Gladstone Has an Excellent Take on Ewoks

Lily Gladstone attends the AFI Awards Luncheon January 12, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone has made no secret of her love for Star Wars, especially the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi. The Golden Globe winner (and Oscar contender) told the New York Times she had a “strong desire to be an Ewok at age five”—that’s how deep the love is.

Gladstone’s adorable nerdiness has emerged in other awards-season interviews, too. In a roundtable with fellow Best Actress contenders hosted by the Hollywood Reporter, she cited Ewoks as one of her first acting role models; they were her “childhood inspirations, I wanted to be an Ewok, and that’s what started all this madness.” That is the cutest thing ever, to be honest, and we love this origin story for an incredible talent we’d like to see working in genre in the future.

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