SEATTLE 鈥� For Lily Gladstone, known around these parts as both an Oscar nominee (best actress for "Killers of the Flower Moon") and a 2004 graduate of Mountlake Terrace High School, the past year has brought a definite shift in the kind of roles being offered to her.
"The characters I am seeing now are not explicitly Native characters," said Gladstone, who made Academy Awards history last year as the first Native American best actress nominee. "For a long time, that was exclusively what I was seeing, for better or worse."
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