Because he has ebony black hair, snow white skin, and blood red lips, some people thought they recognized Mikey Madison as Snow White’s cousin. Don’t have a Disney name? Especially since the film that reveals it today, longsby Sean Baker, takes up the framework of fairy tales: the actress plays a poor girl, Anora, who has a love as perfect as it is unexpected with a prince. Enough to draw the ire of his clan, especially his mother-in-law.
Be careful, the story is combined with the present of American hyperliberalism: Anora is a sex worker and her prince, the son of a Russian oligarch. As a coach, they fly on a private jet; Instead of a castle, they celebrate their wedding in a villa in New York or a palace in Las Vegas. In Cannes, longs It won a Palme d’Or that seemed like a magic wand, given its modest budget. It didn’t take much more for the actress to be offered the costume of “new princess of arthouse cinema”, skillfully cut in the spring by a swooning press.
Some of this charm still hangs in the air when we meet Dame Madison, at the end of September, in the suites of the Lutetia in Paris, where the promotion oflongs. For the occasion she put on her most beautiful party dress, black like her hair, and her best shoes. In the other wing of the Parisian hotel, Francis Ford Coppola receives journalists for the launch of his great work. Megalopolis. “Everything seems a little unreal to me…”says the 25-year-old actress, star in her eyes.
His guardian angel, Sean Baker, prowls the halls with his wife, producer Samantha Quan, and their dog. He discovered Mikey Madison in Once upon a time… in Hollywood (2019), by Quentin Tarantino, where she makes a brief but memorable appearance, as an exalted follower of a Californian sect. “What guts!” Even against actors of the caliber of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, she prevailed.”praises the filmmaker, referring to the end of the film, in which the star of Titanic Forced to extinguish the young woman’s ardor with… a flamethrower.
A “reserved” nature
It was after the screening of Shout (2022), fifth part of the terrifying saga, where Madison puts on the mask of the serial killer, so Sean Baker decides to give her the role of Anora. “When I left the cinema I told my wife: “Anora, it’s her!”rewind. In the space of two films, I was able to measure the entire spectrum of his performance: Mikey can bite, fight, explode with incredible insolence, but he also masters the mechanics of comedy. And then her beauty goes beyond the Hollywood canons and takes us somewhere else. »
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