Mikey Madison is a Charli xcx fan!
Throughout a chat with PEOPLE on the Gotham Awards in New York Metropolis on Monday, Dec. 2, the actress was requested about followers evaluating her titular Anora character to the pop star — particularly calling her “brat,” a descriptive time period made fashionable by Charli over the summer season.
Requested whether or not she will see Anora (a.ok.a. Ani) as “brat,” Madison, 25, replies, “I like Charli. Would not everybody love her? I feel she is the best, sexiest, smartest.”
“I do not know. I didn’t have a brat summer season as a result of I realized what brat was too late,” she provides. “So hopefully I am going to have a brat summer season subsequent yr. I had a nerd lady summer season, however subsequent yr.”
Madison additionally admits she’s “not a celebration lady,” telling PEOPLE, “I am like, a stay-at-home-with-my-pets sort of lady. However I love the get together women and I simply by no means felt in my physique that trying to twerk could be one thing that was pure to me. I by no means even touched that as a result of I used to be like, ‘I’ll go away that for the cool, attractive women.’ ”
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Anora received this yr’s prestigious Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Competition, minting it (and Madison) an automated contender within the 2025 Oscars race.
The Scream (2022) actress’s work within the titular position included studying Russian and unique dancing.
Anora, from filmmaker Sean Baker (The Florida Mission), follows the title character’s journey from Brighton Seashore, New York, strip golf equipment to a whirlwind romantic elopement with the son of a Russian oligarch (performed by Mark Eydelshteyn).
Nonetheless, “as soon as the information reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened because the dad and mom set out for New York to get the wedding annulled,” reads Cannes’ official synopsis.
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Regardless of solely a quick pole-dancing sequence within the film, Madison took getting ready to play a stripper fairly significantly.
“I feel I ready much more than I wanted to, actually,” she informed PEOPLE in September following her film’s Canadian premiere on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.
Preparation meant “a number of months coaching as a dancer” in order that her character Anora “appears to be like very seasoned.” That included needing “to discover ways to twerk,” added Madison, “which was actually necessary as a result of that is an enormous a part of dancing at golf equipment.”
Though “definitely not a dancer,” she admitted, Madison earned “a special perspective” by coaching underneath a real-life nightclub performer: “It made me transfer my physique otherwise and gave me, I do not know, a special nuance to my sexuality.”
Anora is in theaters now.
