Oscars 2025: Meet the sex workers of Anora now eyeing Academy Awards success

The strippers, dancers and actresses of Anora give us their take on the film's realism - and its limits.

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But he "very clearly did not want to buy a lap dance," she says.

Miranda, who was 23 at the time, started asking why he and his wife were there.

"I'm very nosy," she says. "So I kept asking them questions and I finally got it out of them. They were making a film about strippers."

She told them she had studied acting, and - after a successful audition - got a call on her 24th birthday, to offer her a part in the film.

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