The Tasmanian devil who screamed, thrashed and hellcatted her way through "Anora" as Ani, a sex worker caught up in a terrifying but also funny adventure of Russian billionaires and Armenian thugs, did not show up to talk to TheWrap at a recent interview.

Madison was relatively unknown before Anora. She had had small parts in the fifth instalment of the Scream horror franchise and in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. The writer and director of Anora Sean Baker had seen her on screen before, and wrote the part of Ani especially for her.

But it’s Madison’s hair that proved Oscar-worthy on her most recent outing. The actor was photographed outside CBS Studios yesterday (January 23) in New York City, with her long brunette hair in dreamy, soft Hollywood waves.

When Sean Baker and Mikey Madison arrive at the Deadline shoot for this article, it's a beautiful, clear blue-sky day in Los Angeles. Just for a moment, it's almost as though the fires and smoke of the past few weeks are an imagined horror.