The Big Picture Lily Gladstone has quickly become one of Hollywood’s most esteemed and sought-after actors — and for good reason. After shining in projects like Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women and First Cow and The Unknown Country, they were cast in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and received widespread acclaim, including a Golden Globe, a SAG Award, and an Oscar nomination.
Release Date January 21, 2023 Director Erica Tremblay Cast Lily Gladstone , Isabel Delroy-Olson , Ryan Begay , Shea Whigham , Audrey Wasilewski Runtime 90 minutes Lily Gladstone and Isabel Deroy-Olson Talk ‘Fancy Dance’ as a Coming-of-Age Story COLLIDER: There are a lot of genres folded into this movie, but at its core, it feels like a coming-of-age story.
For Jax, you meet her at this really interesting time where you sense that she has — for a minute now — been working really hard at keeping her life kind of on the straight and narrow and removing moral conflicts for herself, realizing that maybe some of the work that she was doing to keep her family afloat and an old version of herself was actually really harming her community.
GLADSTONE: The lipstick scene — that's the co-writer, Miciana Alise, playing the makeup artist. It was important to Erica that that scene and that woman be an Indigenous woman because she needed to recognize immediately what was going on and not judge it and just allow these two to have their moment.
GLADSTONE: And you see what Roki’s getting from her home life. In another narrative, it's easy to judge the adults in her life and the environment she's growing up in, but then you see how she conducts herself in society — her sense of herself is very strong.