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Mikey Madison

ACTOR · BORN 1999

Mikey Madison

Born
25 March 1999
Known for
Better Things (2016), Lady in the Lake (2024)

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Mikey Madison (born 25 March 1999) is an actor best known for Better Things and Lady in the Lake.

12 Interesting Facts About Mikey Madison

Interesting Facts (8)

  1. #001

    Madison spent months on pole conditioning for Anora, training for hours a day to strengthen her inner thighs for gripping the pole, and says the film did not show everything she was capable of.

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    Baker located the mansion by googling the biggest and best mansion in Sheepshead Bay. Built for a Russian oligarch, it was later sold to a local Russian American who allowed the crew to film there for about three weeks.

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  3. #003

    Madison still has her training pole but keeps it in a closet, saying she was completely finished with it once filming ended because it is so hard on the body.

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  4. #004

    Sean Baker wrote Anora with Madison in mind after seeing her in Scream and made the offer to her agent as soon as he left the cinema.

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  5. #005

    Sean Baker first noticed Mikey Madison in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, felt she dominated its final fifteen minutes, and kept her in mind as someone he wanted to work with.

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  6. #006

    Watching Scream in a theater, Baker turned to his wife and producer Samantha Quan and decided to contact Madison's representatives as soon as they left.

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  7. #007

    Madison did her own stunts in the home invasion scene and took months of pole dancing classes.

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  8. #008
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    Two of Mikey Madison's characters meet strikingly similar ends. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Scream (2022) alike, her character is set on fire, lives long enough to lash out at her attacker, and is finally shot dead.

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Behind the Scenes (2)

  1. #009

    For the club's opening scene, producer Alex Coco DJed on set while Baker spent thirty minutes tracking Madison with a telephoto lens, shooting unscripted footage and giving her directions through an earpiece.

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  2. #010

    For Anora, Madison trained with exotic-dance expert Kennady Schneider and moved to New York to work on her Brooklyn accent.

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Characters & Cast (1)

  1. #011

    Madison had to learn roughly four pages of Russian dialogue for the role, a language she did not speak.

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Life & Family (1)

  1. #012

    Madison displays unused film-reel canisters from Anora on a sideboard in her lounge; Sean Baker let her take them.

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