The depressing truth is that Anora didn’t have to be good to have commercial success, as most media portrayals of sex work have evidenced. A ‘good’ fictional character (sex worker or not ...

But social media was abuzz with questions about King ... and the man he elevated to the top of Jacobean society. Like the sex-fueled, late-2000s series “The Tudors” before it, the new ...

However, the similarities do not stop there; both the actors won for their portrayal of sex workers — Stone for the Yorgos Lanthimos directorial Poor Things and Madison for Sean Baker’s Anora.