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EXCLUSIVE: Mikey Madison speaks about Anora, the acclaimed film with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Actress Mikey Madison spent months training to embody the moves of a real exotic dancer in Sean Baker’s Anora. In the film, which was a Palme d’Or winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Madison,