“They generally tell the same story,” said White. One of the film’s producers, the Native American film-maker Willi White, has spoken of his previous negative experiences of film-makers from outside the community swooping in and extracting stories from the reservation. Photograph: Charbonneau/Rex/ShutterstockĪbout the film, I’m curious how Keough and Gammell approached directing an Indigenous story. Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough in 2015. A few days before we speak, the tabloids gleefully whoop up rumours of a legal wrangle between Keough and her grandmother Priscilla Presley over Lisa Marie’s estate. In 2020, her brother Benjamin killed himself at the age of 27. As a young actor, she is the first to admit that her privilege opened doors: “Amazing opportunities! I walked into agencies, met with agents.” But it left her racked with doubt: “I felt that I wouldn’t be taken seriously.”īefore the interview, I receive strict and understandable instructions from Keough’s publicist to avoid personal questions. But, until recently, she has been acting, landing her breakthrough film role in Mad Max: Fury Road – and appearing in American Honey, and the TV shows The Girlfriend Experience and Daisy Jones & the Six. Keough has wanted to write and direct for as long as she can remember. That was Gina’s for a while.” As an interviewee she is friendly, but defensive, even a bit prickly she has the wariness of someone who has grown up in the spotlight. “So, whenever I was in LA I would just stay wherever I was welcome. “My family were living in England at the time, she says. So how did she end up with no place to live? Keough is Elvis’s granddaughter and the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley for a couple of years when she was small, Michael Jackson was her stepfather later it was Nicolas Cage. Within two weeks, Keough had more or less moved into her apartment, Gammell tells me: “I’d say that Riley was more homeless than she appeared when I first met her.” The pair met in their early 20s in LA, introduced by mutual friends. Today, Keough is talking by phone, joined by Gammell in Vancouver where they are working on another film together. A lot of us thought it was going to go nowhere Riley Keough Nobody in Pine Ridge thought this was a real movie. “But I hate that, because they’re very professional.” War Pony won the Caméra d’Or award for best debut feature at the Cannes film festival last year. “Non-professionals is the term,” says Keough. Amazingly, both actors are first-timers, cast from the reservation. Then there’s Matho, an impulsive 12-year-old, whose problems begin when he steals crystal meth from his drug dealer dad. But, instead, Bill blows $1,000 on a poodle (“a white lady’s dog” says his ex, rolling her eyes with amusement and contempt) and hatches a get-rich scheme to breed dogs. He’s meant to be finding the money to bail out his girlfriend. Bill (Jojo Bapteise Whiting) is a charismatic 23-year-old who is equal parts swagger, hustle and sweetness. War Pony is the story of two young Oglala Lakota men on “the rez” whose lives cross paths at the end of the movie.
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