Costume Designer Jacqueline West Gives Shout-Out To Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’; Teases ‘Dune 2’ Details
14.03.2023 - 19:11
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Experienced feature film heads of department tend to be discreet about the productions they have worked on prior to their world premieres out of respect for the directors, not to mention the NDAs.
The Revenant and Dune: Part One costume designer Jacqueline West could not resist giving a shout-out to Martin Scorsese’s upcoming feature Killers Of The Flower Moon, however, at the end of a masterclass for Qatar’s Doha Film Institute on Tuesday.
Moderator Columbia University professor of film studies Richard Peña was about to move on to taking questions from the floor when West interjected, requesting one last word on her career trajectory.
“After Dune: Part One, I had the most incredible experience of my film career. I went to work with Martin Scorsese. I can’t talk about that film yet because nothing has been released but I just have to say it’s the combination of someone I always wanted to work with and my absolute dream project. It’s called Killers Of The Flower Moon and it was brilliantly done not just on my part but by everybody.”
Quizzed by Deadline about what compelled her to make the shout-out in a brief interview after the masterclass, West said: “My husband said after I worked with Scorsese, ‘Okay, now you can quit. That’s the pinnacle.”
“It follows the book, and the book was totally captivating. The native cast was incredible and the acting, Lily Gladstone is incredible. The images were thrilling. It looks amazing. I watched it all being shot but I haven’t seen any of it,” she said.
West revealed that the film’s star Leonardo DiCaprio had seen it, however, and told her it was a masterpiece.
“I was talking to Leo about it. We had lunch before I came here. He said, ‘Jackie, I think we worked on a masterpiece’. I