The Oscar Night revealed a surprise, that a young actress of just 25 years old beat Demi Moore who everyone had expected to win, also surpassing the other outsiders Fernanda Torres, Karla Sofia Gascon and Cynthia Erivo was truly a surprise.
Instead, just like in the fairy tale she stars in, it was Cinderella Mikey Madison who raised the statuette for best leading actress in Anora by Sean Baker, the indie film that swept the Oscars this year.
Madison is Ani, an immigrant of Russian origins, who supports herself by working as a lap dancer in a Manhattan strip club, a job that occasionally becomes that of an escort and which helps her support herself in a modest house in the suburbs .
It is in the nightclub that she attracts, shameless and lustful, a boy, Ivan, who will later turn out to be the daredevil and spendthrift son of a Russian oligarch. The two, between sexual acrobatics, end up falling in love and getting married in Las Vegas but obviously it is a marriage that will have to be annulled in a daring way with what will soon become a semi-comic manhunt, the coward Ivan running away from his responsibilities, while between Ani and the Russian hitman Igor (Yura Borisov) a feeling is born.
Madison is not the daughter of an artist (her parents are two Jewish psychologists) but she has already made two films that have made her noticed . First by Quentin Tarantino who gave her a part in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (she was Susan Atkins, a young follower in the Charles Manson community) and then Scream 5. On TV she participated in the series Better Things and the miniseries Imposters. Anora was her first leading role, tailor-made for her by Sean Baker.
(Online Union)
