Actor Mikey Madison has delivered the performance of the season with her star-making turn in *Anora). *She joins us this week on the heels of her recent Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
We begin by discussing the organic partnership she formed with writer/director Sean Baker (3:30), the ‘emotional preparation’ required to tell this vulnerable story (7:00), her San Fernando Valley upbringing (11:45), and her formative years working with Pamela Adlon on *Better Things *(22:38).
On the back-half, Mikey reflects on her breakout part in Quentin Tarantino’s *Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (30:30), the sex professionals who helped inform her work in Anora (32:50), how she excavated her past to create in the present (43:10), and where she hopes to go on the other side of this towering achievement (49:50). *
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