Television fans will tell you that Mikey Madison was a star born based on his representation of Max Fox to Pamela Adlon and Louis CK “Better Things”, but the scandal of this last actor in 2017, because of his allegations of sexual misconduct, prevented the series from finding the audience that deserved. As a CK fan since the mid -90s, I didn’t want to have anything to do with his new job until he publicly tackles his abuse of deplorable power. When he returned to the standing comedy without counting his misdeeds, I felt betrayed and angry.
So I missed the first major role of Mikey Madison, in which she was so spectacular that Tarantino and Thomas threw her in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” like Susan Atkins, the member of the Manson family who would have stabbed the pregnant pregnancy of eight and a half months to death Sharon Tate. Obviously, nobody wants to launch their career by playing such a hideous monster, but when Madison embarks on his killer monologue of killings concerning his desire to assassinate the occupants of this house on Cieleo Drive, we are frightened by the ferocity of his conviction.
It was at this time that Sean Baker, having finished the very good “Rocket Red”, prepared production on “Anora”. Baker is a rarity in this film profession in that, for the most part, he realizes, writes, turns and modifies his films, in addition to launching them. And he could not move forward on “anora” until he finds an actor capable of transmitting the many qualities of Anora. Get the bad artist, and the public could turn Anora and completely abandon the film.
Fortunately, Baker had seen “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and had been eliminated by the twisted representation of Madison of Atkins. As he said to the filmmaker in 2024, “I was already very interested in her as an actor of” Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood “. She really held me in this film – I went back for the third time at the theater just to watch this scene at the end with Brad Pitt.”
Baker loved Madison but needed more to convince, which he found in Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and the “Scream” of 2022 by Tyler Gillett. “I didn’t want to go ahead with writing until we discovered who Anora was going to be. I had to have a face to write,” he said. When Baker went to see the “Scream” of Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett with his wife Samantha Quan, everything met for the filmmaker. As he said:
“”[W]Thumb that we saw “screaming” in the auditorium, I turned to Sam and said: “She is Ani”. As soon as we got out of the theater, we produced it and we realized that she had the same agent as Brooklynn Prince of the “Florida project”. It was a serendipity. We had a meeting with Mikey, then it was really wonderful to be able to spend next year eliminating the story, always knowing that Mikey was Ani. “”
Serendipity with the roots in the representation of Madison of a composure killer in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” of Tarantino.
