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How ‘Anora’s’ Ivy Wolk Went From TikTok Controversy to Acting in Sean Baker’s Sex Worker Dramedy
'Anora' actor Ivy Wolk talks making her film debut in Sean Baker's Cannes-premiering dramedy and the ups and downs of social media.
“I had sort of a meltdown,” Wolk tells Variety at a swanky beach club in Cannes, where she orders an iced tea that she immediately deems too sweet and leaves to sweat in the sun. Getting off social media gave her the energy to finish high school, earn some extra money by working at shopping mall The Grove, and refocus on her career, eventually landing a small role in Judd Apatow’s pandemic comedy “The Bubble.” A longtime cinephile, Wolk attended a screening of Baker’s 2021 film “Red Rocket” at The Grove AMC, and held her hand high at the post-movie Q&A to ask the celebrated indie filmmaker a question (she wanted to know why he chose to set the film in 2016). Vanya prefers to splurge on sex (he hires the titular Anora, played by Mikey Madison, to be his girlfriend for a week), drugs and candy from the sweet shop Crystal works at on Coney Island.
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