Mikey Madison revealed what she did to impress Quentin Tarantino in her audition for his 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Madison played Sadie, one of the members of the Manson Family in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Her character was one of the three Manson members who broke into Rick Dalton's (Leonardo DiCaprio) house at the end of the movie and attacked the actor and his stuntman/driver, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). After being cast in the movie, Madison was able to work with actors such as DiCaprio, Pitt, and Maya Hawke.
In a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live promoting her critically acclaimed new film Anora, Madison detailed how she stood out to Tarantino during her audition for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. To embody a member of the Manson Family, Madison revealed that she created a painting and wrote a poem that was dedicated to Charles Manson. She was confident that she got the role even before she officially found out because she saw the painting hanging in Tarantino's office. Read Madison's full quote below:
He's [Tarantino] my absolute hero. He's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actress. I got this audition, I think I was like 19-years-old, and I was like, this is my one opportunity to meet Quentin Tarantino, so I'm just gonna go all out. I did a lot of research into the Manson Family, and I found out that they would take a lot of acid trips together, so I painted this painting like my character was on this wild acid trip and I wrote a very dramatic poem to Charles Manson on the back. I cut off a piece of my hair and sowed it and I very dramatically performed it to Quentin and I guess he liked it. That's how I knew that I got the role because I walked into the chemistry read and it was hanging in his office.
What Mikey Madison's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Role Meant For Her Career
Mikey Madison Is A Rising Star In Hollywood
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was the first major movie in Madison's career. In the film, she stood out as an eccentric member of the Manson Family, and her outlandish role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood likely led to her casting in 2022's Scream, in which Madison played one of the ghostface killers in Scream. Playing one of the killers in an iconic horror franchise such as Scream was a major moment of Madison's rise in Hollywood, and her performance in the horror movie caught the attention of Anora director Sean Baker.
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After seeing Madison in both Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Scream, Baker decided that she was perfect for the lead role in Anora, where she plays an exotic dancer who marries the son of a Russian oligarch. However, things become complicated when his family disapproves of the marriage and flies to America to get it annulled. Madison has received a lot of praise for her titular role, and it has even been suggested that she is one of the contenders to win an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Our Take On Mikey Madison's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Audition
Madison Is Just Getting Started
Custom image by Yailin Chacon It is clear that Mikey Madison is a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, and she came up with a very creative way to stand out during the audition process for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Madison was clearly the right choice for the movie since her character managed to stand out even when she was sharing the screen with the likes of DiCaprio and Pitt. Madison has excelled in every project she has worked on, and it will be exciting to see what she does next.
Source: Jimmy Kimmel Live
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, which takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood. The two lead characters are Rick Dalton, the former star of a western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth. Both struggle to make it in a Hollywood they don’t recognize anymore, but Rick soon realizes he's the next-door neighbor of the infamous Sharon Tate.
Release Date July 26, 2019
Studio(s) Columbia Pictures , Heyday Films , Bona Film Group , Visiona Romantica
Runtime 159 minutes
Budget $90 million
English (US) ·