'Anora' director Sean Baker and star Mikey Madison discuss the film's ending and contributions from other cast members who were 'constantly surprising' them.
Christian Holub is a writer covering comics and other geeky pop culture. He's still mad about 'Firefly' getting canceled., he surrounded Simon Rex with first-time actors, many of whom Baker asked to audition after running into them on the street near the filming locations. at the Oscars. Part of the reason for the different casting is that the COVID-19 safety protocols that were in place during the production of are no longer as restrictive.
“This is my first film in which almost all the leads and the supporting actors are all seasoned, trained actors,” Baker tells. “There was budget, and there was time, which are always the biggest factors. Plus, a significant percentage of our dialogue is in Russian and Armenian, and I don’t know those languages. So that was another reason why I really had to have seasoned actors on board.
But even within that tight script, these seasoned actors could make suggestions that impressed Baker. For instance, Yura Borisov came up with an idea during“All great actors will bring something to the table that you never expected ever,” Baker says. “When Yura is doing that screaming in her face, ‘Stop screaming!’, he understood my sensibility enough where he pitched that to me.
Baker wasn’t the only one who was impressed by Borisov. As the film goes on and Ani’s relationship with Vanya starts to sour, she ends up forging an unexpected connection with Igor. The characters’ chemistry developed in parallel with the actors’ working relationship. “Yura is an incredible, really serious, professionally trained actor in the Russian Stanislavsky school,” Madison says. “Working with him was really different, he’s so soulful and sensitive. He was constantly surprising me with the way that he was approaching his character, which I think in turn made me feel differently about him, as Ani feels differently about Igor.
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