Anora star Mikey Madison: Oscar talk is 'overwhelming and amazing'

The breakout star of the film has been winning awards as a stripper who marries the son of an oligarch.

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When he spontaneously proposes, and they get married in Las Vegas, it seems all her dreams are coming true. But she quickly finds that a host of people strongly disapprove of the match.

For Mikey Madison though, it is a dream of a part, where she gets to display everything from steely strength to delicate fragility.

"I recognised from the beginning that she's a very complicated character, very nuanced," agrees Mikey Madison.

"I always felt that she was someone who was very vulnerable on the inside. But is constantly covering it up with this hardness or an aggression. But I do think that she's quite soft inside.

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