Sean Baker on Wanting to Direct an Erotic Film and Winning the Palme d’Or: ‘I’m Not Looking For it to Get Me a Marvel Film’

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Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor After realizing his dream of winning the Palme d’Or for “Anora,” what is next for Sean Baker?

Maybe an erotic film, but certainly not a major studio project. Speaking at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, the latest stop for his Cannes breakout title, the director said winning the prize will “allow me to continue to make the films I want to make in the way I want to make them and continue getting budgets along the size of ‘Anora.’ It puts me in the place where I want to be.

I’m not looking for it to get me a Marvel film or to open doors with studios. That is certainly not my intention.” Despite “Anora” being yet another entry to Baker’s canon of stories about sex work — which includes films such as “Red Rocket” and “Tangerine” — the director is reluctant to say his movies are about sex. “I am definitely interested in sex but haven’t had the opportunity to make a sex movie yet.

I made sex work movies — films about labor. Perhaps you can get turned on by them, but that’s not the main goal.” “Someday, I’d love to make an erotic film where the intention is to turn the audience on, but now the interest is to show how sex is involved in actual livelihood,” he added.