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‘Anora’s Sean Baker, Mikey Madison & Cast On Making An Indie Oscar Breakthrough And Doing “Things We’re Told We Can’t Do Anymore”
‘Anora’s Sean Baker, Mikey Madison & Cast On Making An Indie Oscar Breakthrough And Doing “Things We’re Told We Can’t Do Anymore”
From winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes, to gathering a bristling collection of nominations, Anora required hard graft, deep dedication to the craft and finally, a prayer for the future of independent film and the cinema our city was built upon. Back in 2008, Sean Baker hit his stride with Prince of Brooklyn, the story of an illegal Ghanaian street vendor in downtown New York whose hustling ways are compromised when he is presented with a toddler, the son he never knew he had. Sure, she’d had her explosive turn as a Manson girl in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, in which Brad Pitt’s character torched her with a flamethrower; she’d been the kid in Pamela Adlon’s show Better Things, but Madison had been trawling through auditions and meetings for some ten years, and his was too much to take in.
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