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Actor Mikey Madison speaks to Christiane Amanpour about the careful preparation and craft behind her striking performance in the Oscar-nominated film, ‘Anora’.

Madison was relatively unknown before Anora. She had had small parts in the fifth instalment of the Scream horror franchise and in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. The writer and director of Anora Sean Baker had seen her on screen before, and wrote the part of Ani especially for her.

When Sean Baker and Mikey Madison arrive at the Deadline shoot for this article, it's a beautiful, clear blue-sky day in Los Angeles. Just for a moment, it's almost as though the fires and smoke of the past few weeks are an imagined horror.