In a new video interview with Deadline, Mikey Madison, who played Amber Freeman in Scream (2022), talks about how her roles in Scream (2022) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood led to her eventual Oscar win for Anora.
For Madison this is turning out to be a Cinderella season, as one of the youngest to pull off this kind of showing leading to the Oscars. Believe it not, it all came about because of her Ghostface role in the reboot of Scream.
Baker and his wife saw that horror movie on opening weekend and made a call to offer Madison the role of Ani in Anora, which hadn’t even been written at that point. Baker also knew Madison from her small but memorable role as Susan Atkins, one of the Manson girls who in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood meets a much more grisly end than what happened to the real Atkins. But it impressed Baker, and his instincts have proven to be right on target.