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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Mikey Madison Struggled to Pick Her Next Project After Anora · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Mikey Madison went from relatively unknown actress to Oscar winner
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  Speaker 2: thanks to her starring turn in Anora, which made her
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  Speaker 2: quite suddenly one of the hottest names in town with
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  Speaker 2: the ability to pick and choose her next role, which
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  Speaker 2: ended up being her new movie, The Social Reckoning, Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Sorkin's sequel to The Social Network, both about Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: And she admits to IndieWire the power to be so
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  Speaker 1: picky legitimately stressed her out. She was rumored to be
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  Speaker 1: doing a Star Wars movie for a while, but she
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  Speaker 1: realized what she really wanted to make was a project
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of heart.
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  Speaker 3: And work with interesting people, which Aaron Sorkin definitely is.
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  Speaker 3: Mikey wants to tell stories with integrity and take on
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  Speaker 3: projects specifically different from anything she's done previously.
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  Speaker 2: And the social reckoning and the character she plays, real
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  Speaker 2: world Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, could not be more different
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  Speaker 2: from a Nora.
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  Speaker 3: But the real thing.
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  Speaker 1: That made the choice easier was Mikey's realization that what
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  Speaker 1: she did next wasn't that important. She idolizes Cate Blanchett
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  Speaker 1: for having a long and varied career.
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  Speaker 3: So it was more about what she felt inspired by now,
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  Speaker 3: because hopefully there will be a lot of nexts for Mikey.
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  Speaker 2: The social reckoning is now playing.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.