Meet the Sexual Workers Anor who now view the Academy assigns success

When Luna Sofia Miranda approached Sean Baker at a strip club in New York in 2022, she did his best to charm him.

But “very obviously he didn’t want to buy a dance in a circle,” she says.

Miranda, who was 23 at the time, began to ask why he and his wife were there.

“I’m very much,” she says. “Well, I kept asking them questions and I finally pulled them out of them. They made a movie about strippers.”

She told them that she was studying acting and – after a successful audition – she received a call for her 24th birthday, to offer her a role in the movie.

This movie, anor, is now seen as one of the leaders who went to Oscar on Sunday.

He is directed by Baker and the stars Mikey Madison, who is for the best actress for her role as New York’s strippers.

Madison, 25, relied on real life strippers to help her perfect a part.

When she won the BAFTA movie award Last month, she dedicated it to the community of sex workers.

“I was able to get to know the part of that community through my film research and it was one of the most amazing parts of the movie shooting,” she told us in Backstage.

They “deserve respect and do not get it often. And so I had to say something,” she added.

In the movie, we talked to actresses, strippers and dancers about their experiences of working on it – and their thoughts about the finished product.

Some have praised the film as real, especially in portraying the rejection and exhaustion that sex workers often feel. But others said the movie was “limited”.

Edie Turquet was not sure at first if he would participate in the film.

The 21-year-old, who is British and appeared in Harry Potter Spin-off Fantastic Beasts as a child, now lives in New York, where she is a student and stripper.

She actually acting as a background dancer in anora after noticing her at the club at the club she worked. But Tirquet says she discussed the night before filming not to appear.

“I didn’t want to be part of a bad striptease movie or anything about our industry service, so I was worried,” she told me.

“Most stripper films are super -excessive aesthetized, or bad and useful.”

Edie points to 2020. The movie Zola, about a waitress who goes to Florida for a weekend of taking off for a quick money. “I found that she was hyperbolic, completely full of work, and she felt like talking to women,” she said.

“And don’t run me on a beautiful woman who is angry, especially the idea of ​​a street worker played by Julia Roberts. Come on.”

But when Turquet realized that Anora was the movie Sean Baker, she changed her mind.

“His films are based on realism, he has a style of flying movie on the wall, which I love,” she said. “So I was down.”

Baker’s film skills were also what attracted Lindsey Normington to the movie. The actress and stripper play Diamond, an enemy of anor in the workplace.

She says she saw him in Afterparty for the premiere of the movie and went to tell him that he was a fan.

They connected on Instagram, and months later he contacted her to tell her that he could play a role for her in a new movie. “I fell to my knees in my house,” Normington said.

In the film, anor offers a chance on fairytale escape when she meets and falls for the son of rich Russian.

Miranda, an actress and stripper who plays Lulu, Anori’s best friend, says she was in charge of helping Madison to sound like a real New York sex worker.

“I shared PDF languages ​​and shin expression that will only be understood by comic booklets from New York,” she said.

One of those words was “What”, which, explains Miranda, is “a buyer who is like a pitch of money without a bottom. He’ll make you night. And she won’t make you do it at all.”

Kennnardi Schneider, a stripper and choreographer based in Los Angeles, who trained Madison for dance, also participated in the film.

She says Madison set up a pillar in her house in LA, and the couple started working on her “sexy routine”.

“She put so much work to do,” said Schneider, 28. “She was so determined.”

This section contains spoilers for anor

Miranda said that many themes of the movie, heart and rejection, were transmitted to it.

“Sometimes I feel like this great toy, which people want to play with. They go,” Wow like you’re a stripper. You’re so cool. “And then they just threw you aside and left you,” she said.

“I think a lot about finish because I feel a lot like an anor.”

Tirquet agrees, calling the ending “very relativized and sharp,” adding that it accurately shows “exhausting and fatigue”.

“The sexual industry has a built -in trauma. She felt so real. It’s an incredible vulnerable industry,” she said.

“You put yourself in danger every time you go to work. It’s a complex and exhausting job.”

But on the whole, she said she had mixed feelings for the movie.

“What misses a lot of strippers – and what the anora begins, but it doesn’t go far enough – a moral question is about men buying sex,” she said.

“It’s a matter of consent. Most of these films are ashamed to answer or look at it.”

She said that it also frustrated that these characters “never exist outside your profession”.

“[Anora] It’s a pretty limited character, “she said.” We never learn anything about her. The film takes a perspective [male leads] Igor and Vanya, in defining who she is. “

“It’s better than any movie I saw about it, but in the end he is limited because the sex worker does not speak him,” she added. “I can’t wait until we tell our own stories and I hope this will open the door to that.”

For Normington, the movie reflected “Insecurity and Competition and Jealousy”, which she personally experienced in clubs.

“I appreciate that this is not trying to be the most important movie of a stripper.”

In the meantime, Schneider Portrait of the World’s World’s Nature of work hit a chord.

In the early scenes of the movie we see anor at work, talking to clients at the club.

We also see her other strippers on lunch break, eat tupperware boxes in the back room.

“He felt really true,” Schneider said.

“A lot of time in [stripper] Movies, you have glamorization, and money falls from the ceiling. These moments happen, but there are few far between them, “she said.” It is much more quiet bustle. “

When the anora came out, special projections were held for sex workers in New York and LA.

The recordings circulated on social media It shows strippers that hit high -heeled shoes together to show their gratitude at the end of the projection.

“It’s the most beautiful applause I’ve ever received, I don’t know if it will ever happen again,” Madison told us.

Now all the eyes are on the Oscar.

Miranda and Normington will attend. “Somehow it’s stupid to think I’m going to an Oscar but [at the same time] At the club I was arguing with a stupid man over $ 20, “Miranda said.

“I feel like I’m living two lives.”

She said that Madison was “in place” to say that a community of sex workers does not receive the respect she deserves and said she hoped Anorain’s success would change that.

“I hope that if this movie wins an Oscar, it marks the beginning of a shift in Hollywood, where sex workers are respected, as workers in their fields, but also as entertainers,” she said.

“If this movie wins an Oscar, I want to see it.”