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Sean Baker and Mikey Madison push the ‘Anora’ vibes to the brink

Have you ever seen a photo of someone you’ve known for years that makes you change how you see them? “Because I need to see this.” “I’m sure it’s just ‘Star Wars’ toys flying around against the star field,” Baker says. “I think we saw that as a challenge,” Baker says, noting that he started to play with tones on his previous movie, 2021’s man-child character study “Red Rocket.” This time around, he wanted to really push the audience through genres, vibes, highs and lows, figuring that he could go big and go broad as long as he returned to a grounded reality by the end of the movie. “I forget who said this quote, but it’s, ‘Comedy is in a wide shot; tragedy is in a close-up,’” Baker says. But at least they knew what I was thinking.” “I remember reading that ending, thinking, ‘There’s no way we’re gonna shoot this,’” Madison tells Baker.

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