Trailer gives new look at 'Killers of the Flower Moon' about month before movie's release
WHEN YANCY READ CORN AUDITIONED TO BE IN KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, HE THOUGHT HE WOULD JUST BE AN EXTRA. BUT LITTLE DID HE KNOW HE’D HAVE A MUCH BIGGER ROLE. MY CHARACTER IS CHIEF BONNIE CASTLE AND HE WAS THE CHIEF OF THE OSAGE IN THE EARLY 1920S. WHEN YOU SEE KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON LATER THIS SUMMER, YOU’LL SEE PLENTY OF SIGHTS. YOU KNOW, IN OKLAHOMA. BUT YOU COULD ALSO SEE SOME FAMILIAR FACES AS THE MOVIE IS GIVING LOCAL ACTORS OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THEY NEVER THOUGHT THEY’D GET, LIKE WALKING THE RED CARPET AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE GET TO GO ON THIS RIDE. I MEAN, IT’S IT’S IT’S A RARITY. SO I DON’T TAKE IT FOR GRANTED. AND I LIVED IN THE MOMENT WHILE I WAS OUT THERE. I TOOK IT ALL IN ACTING IN THE MOVIE HAS BROUGHT NORMAN’S YANCEY RED CORN FRIENDSHIPS WITH A-LIST ACTORS LIKE LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND JESSE PLEMONS. BUT THIS IS MORE THAN JUST A MOVIE TO RED CORN, HIS OWN GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS A VICTIM OF THE REAL LIFE EVENTS. THE MOVIE IS BASED ON. WELL, MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, WHO WAS MURDERED, HE WAS POISONED, AND HIS SONS, WHO WERE PROBABLY LIKE 18, 19, THEY TRIED TO GET THE THEY TRIED TO GET THE AUTHORITIES TO DO ANYTHING, BUT THEY DIDN’T DO ANYTHING. YOU JUST COULDN’T GET ANYTHING DONE, ESPECIALLY IF YOUR OSAGE RED CORN SAYS THE MOVIE IS SOMETHING ALL OKLAHOMANS SHOULD SEE. IT’S AN OKLAHOMA FILM. IT’S AN OKLAHOMA STORY. IT’S A OKLAHOMA HISTORY. IT’S IT NEEDS TO BE TOLD. YOU KNOW, IT NEEDS TO BE TOL
