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Better Things actress Mikey Madison goes the distance in a raw and revealing performance as a high-class stripper who is romanced, and married by, the son of a Russian oligarch in Sean Baker‘s Anora.
The pic is one of many in Baker’s canon, including Starlet and Red Rocket, that centers around a sex worker. In fact, The filmmaker said at the Cannes press conference for Anora that “my next film involves a sex worker.”
Why is Baker so hot for the subject?
“It’s important to explore what sex work is in the modern age and how it applies in a capitalist society; it’s a job, a livelihood, it’s a job, it’s a career and it should be respected.”
“In my opinion, I’m speaking for myself, be decriminalized and not in any way regulated,” he added, “It’s a sex worker’s body..it’s their body and it’s up to them to decide how to use in their livelihood.”
“There are a million stories to be told in that world,” says the filmmaker, “If there’s one intention with these films (it’s) telling human stories.”
“It also helps remove the stigma that’s applied to this livelihood.”
Baker wrote the script specifically Madison, who mentioned that she’s ever had a director write a specific part for her. While her Anora finds love, the oligarch son’s family sets on destroying the marriage.
