Mikey Madison Full Interview Room

Variety

3/12/2025

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00:00$3.99 and $2.07 on debt.

00:06OK, so you knew that I was going to have to be your first question.

00:09Scott Mance for KTLA 5.

00:11What does it mean to you to not only for you to win this best actress Oscar,

00:16but for Sean to win four Oscars in one night for the same movie?

00:21Well, first of all, thank you for being so sweet these past few months.

00:25And I just appreciate you.

00:27You've been such a supporter of Enora.

00:29So thank you. Oh, my gosh, it's

00:34I for lack of a better word, just incredibly surreal.

00:39I never thought anything like this would happen in my life.

00:42I just I love making movies and I've dreamed of being an actress

00:48that has that would be able to be in a film like Enora my entire career as an actress.

00:52And so it's it's a huge honor.

00:56One that I think will soak in later down the line, hopefully.

01:03I really did not expect it at all.

01:08Gosh, sorry, what was the other part of your question for Sean to win four?

01:12I mean, Sean is he's such a wonderful he's an incredible filmmaker.

01:18He is an incredible writer, an amazing editor.

01:22He is a true lover of cinema.

01:25A kind person.

01:27He has dedicated so much of his career to

01:31telling really important stories.

01:33And so I'm so happy for him because he's been, you know, he's just

01:36he's just a true indie filmmaker.

01:38Like we went off and just made this

01:42weird, crazy movie and had fun and poured our hearts into it.

01:47And, you know, all of this started at Cannes,

01:50which that was just just a dream come true for me.

01:53A career long dream to even just go to a film festival.

01:56You specifically can.

01:58And so everything that has followed has been wonderful.

02:01But I'm just so happy for him.

02:02I adore him and I adore Sammy Kwan and Alex Coco and the entire team.

02:08And so I could keep talking about them forever, but I'm so, so happy for them.

02:14Next question, 207, back right.

02:17Hi, Mikey Haley with Entertainment Tonight.

02:21Huge congratulations.

02:22If I'm not mistaken, you've starred in less than 10 feature films

02:27so far in your career.

02:28How do you hope this win will influence your career going forward?

02:36Yeah, it's interesting, I've been thinking about the future a lot

02:40and also the past, and I've been really trying to remind myself

02:45to stay as present as possible throughout all of this.

02:49So I don't know.

02:50I really don't know what will happen in the future.

02:53I, I just want to keep making movies and,

02:59you know, continue to work with people who inspire me

03:02and play interesting characters, tell stories that are compelling.

03:06And so that's just what I hope to do.

03:09And I really don't know what will happen.

03:12I just know that tonight I'm going to go home to my new puppies

03:17and probably, you know, clean up their mess.

03:19And it's going to bring me right down to earth.

03:22Yeah.

03:24Thank you for your question.

03:25Final question.

03:26Three thirty seven here in the front on your right.

03:30Hi, Mikey.

03:31My name's Daniela and I'm with People magazine.

03:33You have said before that Nora really helped you come out of your shell

03:36and gave you confidence.

03:37And so now having this award, if you could talk to a Nora,

03:41what would you say to her?

03:44Oh, gosh, I don't know.

03:46Um, you know, I think that making, making this film gave me confidence

03:52as an actor and as a creative, um, I think that it really

03:58inspired me, reinvigorated my love of cinema and reminded me of

04:04the kind of work that I want to do.

04:06Um, so I don't, I don't know what I would say to the character.

04:09I still have so much love for her.

04:13And it was really one of the first characters that I don't know was.

04:22Sorry.

04:22I've had my, my mind is all over the place and my heart's about to explode

04:27right now, but, um, I don't, I don't know what I would say.

04:30I, I would just say that I'm grateful that I was able to, uh, portray

04:35you for a short period of time.

04:37And there'll always be a small part of me that carries around the experience

04:41of making the film and the character, because it has changed my life in so

04:45many ways, you know, not, not just because of all of this that's happening

04:49right now, but just the experience of being able to work with Sean Baker,

04:54the experience of, um, uh, learning and meeting incredible people

04:59from the sex work community.

05:01That's been, uh, such a wonderful part of this.

05:05Um, and I've met and made so many incredible friends.

05:07So I would just say, thank you.

05:09That's wonderful.

05:10Thank you so much.

05:11Congratulations.

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