Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon has been nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture. It's a story of a Native American woman, played by Lily Gladstone, trying to save her community from a spree of murders. Actress Tantou Cardinal plays her mother. Let's take a sneak peek of the film.

These are the finest, wealthiest, and most beautiful people on God's Earth. They outsmart everybody. They have to say, who gets the oil? Well, we mix these families together, and that estate money flows the right direction. It'll come to us.

Why did you come here?

And joining us now is Tantou Cardinal. Thank you so much for coming on the show. What a pleasure to have you here. Thank you. So you are 73 years old. You've been acting for decades. What does it mean to you now to be a part of a movie that's considered to be the best or one of the best of the year?

Well, I've been doing this for over 50 years, and I was in Dances with Wolves. So there was another movie that was well hailed. What I appreciated, and I felt the same energy when I was at Cannes and Killers was coming out, I just felt like a reverberance of Dances with Wolves when it came out. It was something that people hadn't seen to see us being portrayed as human beings. So a This has had a real strong impact on the community, the people that were touched by it was everywhere. I think it had an impact on the culture, and it had a story about culture. It influenced society in that way, making room for something like Killers to come along. I'm hoping that Killers has some impact in the political world, that people will recognize that this story hasn't been told. It's very difficult having our stories told. On that point, I actually felt ashamed when I was watching the movie and that I hadn't heard of this story when we're talking about multiple murders for this oil inheritance.

What does it mean for you to be able to bring this to a mainstream, widespread audience?

Well, it's really important, and there's so many stories within the story. You needn't be ashamed. I come from a territory in Northern Alberta where there was Tar Sands in the Earth there, and they've known it since the 1700s. So this experience, now, the specifics, I hadn't heard either. The real specifics of what had happened in Oklahoma. But generally, I know what happens when the oil industry doesn't want to be messed with. And I know the greed that has overcome this world and the greed that has contained so that this land, North America, belongs to basically business. I'm delighted that people are being educated about some of the facts, about what happened, what my ancestors had to live through. We We live through it now.

What does it mean to you to get that nomination from the SAG Award, the best ensemble cast nominee?

It's nice. It's really nice. I'm glad that people are having the opportunity to celebrate it and to have a look at it. You say it's hard, but it's actually gentle compared to what the experience of colonialism and genocide and femicide and the abuse that our culture has gone through. We've been misinterpreted and maligned and all of this stuff. But that is a rising change. It is credit to people in our community that killers can be seen, that dances was seen, that all of this work is coming forward. That's credited to our people in the community that refused to let it be the case that were wiped out. No.

Tantou Cardinal, we can't thank you enough for coming on and talking with us tonight. Killers of the Flower Moon is now available to stream on Apple TV+.

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