Riley Keough reveals that “War Pony was originally intended to be whitewashed

Riley Keough shares her distress over how people whitewash her director, war horsewhich won the Caméra d’Or for Best Debut Feature at the Cannes Film Festival last year.

during an interview Irish Times, this daisy jones and the six The 33-year-old star revealed that people want “a white guy they can identify with as a protagonist”.

“They wanted an outsider who came into the community. We tried to bring that in. Because it was a weird note, we got a lot of it,” Keogh explained.

“Then we decided: This is ridiculous. We’re making a movie about our two sons, Pine Ridge and our friends. Why are we suddenly taking in these white people?”

with Keogh, war horse Produced by her best friend and production partner, Gina Gammell.The idea for the film grew out of Keogh’s friendship with Franklin Sue Bob and Bill Reddy whom she met on the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota Indian Reservation while filming American honey.

Reddy and Bob and Gammell also wrote the screenplay for the film.

“This film is about how we work together consciously and ethically within this community,” she told the outlet.

“It’s not easy. In my opinion, if you want to be a filmmaker and come into a community, you can’t just take what you want and leave. You have to put in a lot of hard work. That’s what we’re going to do. thing, because they are our friends. They feel like our family.”

Keogh added that because the community “has so much horrible history with white people,” they have to respect the trusting relationships they’ve built.

“There were challenges,” Keogh explained. “Eventually, we showed up in front of them and we discussed everything that was going to happen. I’m so proud of what we did to make this movie. It was really out of love. If you’re in a neighborhood that’s not your own To make a film, there must be love and care.”