Disappointingly, however, after five months of training, [the director] Sean picked a lap-dance club for a filming location that would involve no pole dancing.

She panicked. ‘[I’d] just destroyed my body learning how to do this,’ she recalled. So she convinced Sean to ‘let me have one scene in the film where I get to do some 10-second trick.’

Mikey was also new to other forms of dancing involved for her role. Speaking to Access Hollywood, she revealed, ‘I went into my twerk classes with very little knowledge and no expertise.’

In her acceptance speech, Mikey thanked her mum, her ‘favourite scene partner’ who ‘always helped me memorise my lines.’ She also showed her support for ‘the sex-worker community’, insisting they deserved ‘respect and human decency’.

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