Introducing: Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

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Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We’re excited to introduce you to a show we know you’ll love: Talk Easy. Hosted by Sam Fragoso, Talk Easy is a weekly series of intimate conversations with artists, activists, and politicians—where people sound like people.

In this episode, actor Mikey Madison has delivered the performance of the season with her star-making turn in Anora. She joins us this week on the heels of her recent Oscar nomination for Best Actress.

We begin by discussing the organic partnership she formed with writer/director Sean Baker, the ‘emotional preparation’ required to tell this vulnerable story, her San Fernando Valley upbringing, and her formative years working with Pamela Adlon on Better Things.

On the back-half, Mikey reflects on her breakout part in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, the sex professionals who helped inform her work in Anora, how she excavated her past to create in the present, and where she hopes to go on the other side of this towering achievement.

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1:47.7	Today, actor Mikey Madison. Her career began in earnest back in 2016, playing the acerbic eldest daughter to Pamela Adlon in Better Things. Madison came of age on that hit FX program. She got the part
1:54.6	at the age of 15. By the time the show concluded its fifth and final season, she was 23.
2:01.7	Since then, she's emerged as one of the finest young actors we have,
2:05.8	with memorable turns and films like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,
2:09.9	where she plays a Manson girl and Scream 5 as, spoiler, a ghost-faced killer.
2:16.3	But I'm not sure anything could have prepared us for what she delivers in the new film, Anora.
2:22.2	It won the Palm Door at last year's Cannes Film Festival and has since been nominated for Best Picture.
2:29.1	Madison, who was also nominated for an Oscar, plays the titular character, a young sex worker from Brooklyn,
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