How did you find this story?
David Lowery: It was a true story about this guy whose life was too good to be true in terms of a narrative.


How did you find this story?
David Lowery: It was a true story about this guy whose life was too good to be true in terms of a narrative.

What was the process like between you two as you developed the screenplay?
Well the the screenplay developed in a really, to use an overused word, organic way. I knew he was a fine writer. I gave him a premise that I had been sitting on for about a decade. He did the writing, but we developed the story and the feel and the texture of it together.

Anora is such an intense and ferocious character, but there’s an understated vulnerability. How did you weave that into the performance?
Mikey Madison: I always saw her as someone who was deeply vulnerable on the inside but is constantly protecting herself by covering it up with anger and spunk.