Steven Spielberg Interviews Martin Scorsese, Hails ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ as His “Masterpiece” (Unique Video)
In what is unquestionably the highest-profile Q&A of this award season, and possibly any, Steven Spielberg posed inquiries to Martin Scorsese on Tuesday evening following a packed screening of Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon — a dynamic that one Academy member likened to “Mozart interviewing Beethoven.”
After the 2 legends took the stage on the DGA Theatre in Los Angeles to a thundering standing ovation, Spielberg instructed Scorsese, “For me, that is simply an distinctive expertise, watching your movie. You understand how I really feel about all your movies, however this one stands out in a means for me that’s so impactful. It’s an epic journey, nevertheless it’s not a Hollywood epic, for me; it’s a humanitarian epic.”
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Then, the 2 outdated buddies, calling one another “Steve” and “Marty,” mentioned how Scorsese constructed belief with and labored alongside members of the Osage nation; the truth that Robert De Niro cherished the Osage language a lot that he needed the entire movie to be carried out in it; and the breakout efficiency of Killers lead actress Lily Gladstone, who was sitting unnoticed within the again row of the theater (and who instructed me afterward that it was simply as surreal as you may think to have these two masters talking in such glowing phrases about her).
Spielberg closed the dialog by declaring: “You’re the grasp of our medium, and that is your masterpiece, Marty.”
The Hollywood Reporter completely shares video of the complete dialog beneath.
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