Baker is basking in the glow of his 'love story' and Mikey Madison's stunning performance.
Will director Sean Baker finally get his Oscar moment? His latest film, the dazzling "Anora," stars Mikey Madison, right, as a young Brooklyn sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch .
Sean Baker in May celebrating "Anora" winning the Palme d'Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.“I never really thought about this and I didn’t think forward to the release and the possible campaign. And so it’s nice that it’s playing out this way, and especially for my cast and crew. Mikey is getting a lot of attention and that’s really all I care about. I don’t care about my own stuff, quite honestly. I care about my cast and crew getting the recognition they deserve ...
“When you can see an actor go to those places and yet still keep it grounded and not cartoonish or not a caricature, I’m so impressed,” Baker says. Anora’s journey to marriage and all that follows kicks off when she meets Ivan “Vanya” Zakharov, the oligarch’s son. He visits the Manhattan club where she works and asks for a woman who can speak Russian., 22, Vanya is a good-time Charlie enthusiastic about Ani, her lap dances and the limited Russian language skills she absorbed from her grandmother. He’s far from her typical customer — young , almost her age and deep-pocketed.
Toros, the Zakharov family’s man in New York, is in the middle of an Armenian church service for the baptism of his godchild when he gets a call that puts him in an even more delicate situation. Rushing out of the church, he’s horrified to learn that Vanya, the kid he’s supposed to have kept in check, has gotten hitched., makes a beeline for the Zakharov mansion and dispatches two of his men: Garnick, a fellow Armenian, and Igor, a Russian hired muscle.
“I was always setting up stereotypes then trying to shatter them,” Baker says. “In Ani’s eyes ... we slowly get to see that, ‘oh, OK, maybe he’s not what we thought.’
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