But since Anora won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last May, speculation that Mikey will also get an Oscar on March 2 has now reached fever pitch, while the film itself is favourite to pick up the Best Picture award.
Mikey spent months honing every detail of the character, from learning Russian to shopping for clothes and even choosing the fake nails, declaring that Anora’s life was “a completely different universe in every single way” to her own.
Until her surprise Bafta win caused the biggest upset of the night last Sunday, Mikey had been seen as the Cinderella of the awards season, losing out time and again to Demi Moore for her role in quirky horror film The Substance.
Its Bafta-winning leading lady Mikey Madison has told how she went to a gruelling “stripper boot camp” to train for her racy role as Russian-American club performer Anora “Ani” Mikheeva.
The 25-year-old — who won the Leading Actress gong at the London bash last week, with the film now tipped for Oscar glory — spent months researching her role, including learning pole-dancing and twerking, to make it as realistic as possible.
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