Sean Baker doesn’t know he’s the front-runner with ‘Anora’

On the upper floor of the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, Sean Baker talks with a store with veteran Ivan Rothberg while he was connecting a fifth ball “Anura”, which is the crowd crowds that nominated the Academy Award in Baker and who won the medals from the directors and producers union over the weekend .

When looking at the window window on the sold theater screen, we see this (Igor)Era BorisovI just handed over a red scarf to Ani (Mikey Madison) to store the cold night air, so we have some time before the end of Ani. We go to a small office in the corner or the lower as Baker flows next to his wife and productive partner, Samantha Kwan, and his colleague Alex Coco. We are surrounded by stacked shelves with red chrome boxes, Kit Kats and sparkling water. Chuwan holds a box of cheesecake. You take sustenance where you find it.

More than 48 hours have passed since “Anora” Awards were swept up At the GUILD of America and Guild of America, and they still cannot believe that this has happened.

“When we got to the producers, it was just closed all night,” Baker says, referring to the stress that came with the victory of DGA and had to deliver a speech that was not ready for delivery. He won the DGA Award at 9 pm, took the photos and then jumped in a car on a long journey from Beverly Hills to Century City at the last moments of the PGA party. “It was very strange to hear them calling” Anura. “

“I thought we’ll empty the entire weekend,” Producer Coco says. “In a reference to the Critics Selection Awards held on Friday,” I believed that we did not win there, and this is our ears. “

“I didn’t think about it this way, because I don’t know the game really well. People now tell me that we are already in conversation again because of these victories. Look, I didn’t know that these victories will bring us back to the conversation,” Baker says.

After that, Baker, two weeks shy his 54th birthday, did not expect to be in the prizes’ conversation in the first place. Baker enjoyed making films that illuminate the actress films an imperfect acting in 2015 with “Yusufi”, a story equipped with a small budget of transit sex workers working at the intersection of Santa Monica and the highlands in Hollywood. Baker filmed the movie on the iPhone 5s.

He continued two years after the “Florida Project”, another view of people at the margins, in this case, the residents of the Al -Mutdah Hotel under the Disney world. William Davo, who plays the besieged director in Motel, has won the only ons of the film.

“I thought,” well, I don’t think I will get more eyebrows higher than the “Florida Project”. “Like, this is the upper part of the eyebrow there. So if they are not in it, if I fear people with that, I do not mean this world.”

Mickey Madison and Mark Edlstein in “Anura”.

(neon)

Baker continued “Florida Project” with “Red Rocket”, again in mixing fun, honesty and sadness in his story about a middle -aged porn star fleeing Los Angeles in his small hometown of Texas. Then came “Anora” A fabricated fairy tale About Brooklyn’s sex factor, in the end, the destructive relationship with the son of the Russian Qalla.

“There was no one moment when we were making” Anura “that I was like,” I do this for a major audience. “To tell you the truth, it was more like,” I do this for people who love my crazy things. I do this. For people who love “Red Rocket”.

“With the exception of when we were leaving for the Cannes and I said,” This will be a pleasant comfortable journey, “Kwan reminds him, harassed.” I thought it was very commercial, so he wouldn’t win anything. “

“I also thought he was very funny,” Baker answered. “Historically, comedy did not win many awards there.”

“Anora” is over He took Bali orHigher Festival Award. Baker finds himself a candidate for the four Academy Awards, as a producer, director, writer and editor.

What raises the question: Why, among all Baker’s films, is “Anora”, which communicates with the pioneers of cinema and voters?

Baker ignores his shoulders. “It is very difficult to say. It may take a few years as you can look back in an era and have a perspective about what was going on, culturally and politically.”

Coco believes that people respond to the title of the title. Quan presents that it may be a “strange family” formed between the characters of the film, all of which are known and human.

“They are all a similar category,” says Coco. “All owe this family that has all the money. They are trying to survive. “

When Baker won in Bali or, he participated in a stage with George Lucas, one of his many heroes he met in the past few months, a list that includes Pedro, the club and Christopher NolanThe latter who presented him with the DGA Award.

“I didn’t expect it,” Baker says, referring to the amount estimated by Nolan’s films and working to preserve the films. “So when I went there, I was thinking that I would definitely try to make him happy and talk about theatrical windows and filming the movie.” We all laugh. He resorted to Guan. “Was he smiling there?” She assures him that he was.

Baker, the left, talks to fans after the examination.

(Kay Qiao / Cinematheque at Aero Theater)

Baker met one of his idols a few days ago when he took the best picture of Los Angeles on the night in which the group honored the profession of John Carpenter. He didn’t know that Carbnes would be there and Kwan says that her husband was “frightened.”

“I never informed myself, so I didn’t know that he was getting job honor that night,” says Baker. “He is a heroine. I still have a” escape from New York “on the wall. I had a” 13th Circle “on the seventh and eighth -row. Of course,” the thing “means a lot for me.”

When the evening ended, Baker approached a carpenter and asked for a picture. The two did each other, and made metal marks with their fingers. If Baker’s moment is not proud in the past few months, it is high in the list.

When I suggest that “Anura”, which is an ideal and mysterious moment of its title, may be another reason for its attractiveness, as Baker returns to the carpenter, saying that he hopes to mention this aspect of the master’s film. Al Najjar had a way with mysterious ends.

“He taught me that,” says Baker. “All my favorite films have open ends. You put the audience in an uncomfortable place where they are asked to do work. But very bad. It is like,“ I try to respect you, comrades. I know you can do that. “

The night they won by honoring DGA and PGA, COCO go to the biggest in Silver Lake with some friends. Baker and Kwan went home directly to the bed. The director took a photo early in the morning that was leading the day after W.

“I was upset,” says Baker. “It was difficult to settle.”

How did you go to sleep?

Kwan looks like a child. She closes her eyes, manufactures her head and hit a pillow. “I must go to sleep. If I don’t, I am dead.”

“We are trained to do this,” says Baker. “My mind is like,” if you don’t fall asleep, there will be a domino effect. “

This ability will be useful during the weekend. Baker will travel to San Francisco on Thursday for an academic offer for “Anora”, then to New York on Saturday for the Guild for the Book, and finally to London the next day to get Baker. (Remember that the previous comment on “Don’t Time Time” itself?

“Wait a minute,” he says, looking at Kwan and Coco. “I do wga?”

“Yes, Saturday,” Coco tells him. “Then the Sunday.”

Baker retracts in his seat and starts laughter. Or is he crying?

“Oh my God! Oh my God!” He says. He edits a movie produced and participated in his writing with the Taiwanese director Tsu Shih Cheng, entitled “The Left Girl”, and they are trying to finish the dates of the festival’s final dates.

“I have another 10 days,” he says.

“He spent another 10 days for 100 days,” says Coco.

“No, this really drives him,” says Baker. “It is incredibly scary.”

this Is frightening? What about the Academy Awards?

“Well, one step simultaneously,” says Baker.

Rothberg has no other rollers to change. It’s time to go to the stage for questions and answers. Anura almost ultimately.