After the success of the film Anora, actor Mark Eydelshteyn has become the talk of the town. Mark Eydelshteyn, sometimes called “the Russian Timothée Chalamet,” is known for his “untamed curly hair” and “similar awkward, energetic charm.”

And if Mark Eydelshteyn’s career takes off in Hollywood, he can thank his decision to record a self-tape of himself completely naked. Yura Borisov, his co-star in the Russian sci-fi “Guest From the Future,” who had just been cast as a reluctant protagonist in “Anora,” recommended Mark Eydelshteyn to Sean Baker. He remembers the young playful actor turning in an unusual audition tape, USA Today reports.

“He was completely naked, away from the camera: butt visible, sunglasses on, smoking and giving a very funny performance,” Baker recalls with a laugh. “After that moment, we couldn’t see anyone else for the role.”

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Mark Eydelshteyn in Anora film

In Sean Baker’s comedy film “Anora,” Mark plays Ivan, the hilariously energetic, fast-living son of an oligarch who happily spends his parents’ millions while leaving camp at their New York mansion, who then falls in love gets on Mikey Madison’s sex in Manhattan. worker Ani. It’s a wild ride from start to finish, overflowing with drugs, sex, violence, gangsters, Vegas weddings and a lounge full of expensive ornaments being smashed to pieces, according to The Variety. However, all hell breaks loose when the couple runs away and Ivan’s parents send their accomplice after them.

For his self-shot, Mark Eydelshteyn wanted to impersonate Ivan by dressing up in expensive designer clothes that were in his wardrobe. But he didn’t have one. “So I immediately realized I had to be naked,” he told The Variety (in his first Western media interview), adding that he also read the script on camera between puffs (something he says “gave him the time to remember its lines”). It proved an instant hit.READ ALSO: Sex worker film ‘Anora’ delves into a romantic dream that turned into a disaster

“I used to vape a lot as a way to combat stress,” Eydelshteyn said of the audition for USA Today. “I just tried to improvise a lot.” Although Ivan is a wild child, we learn that his constant revelry is his way of dealing with loneliness: “He tries to save the child within himself, but he can’t. His friends aren’t real friends, and partying is just his protection. He finds his own little world with Anora, but that also breaks his family.”

Mark was inspired to audition for “Anora” by Russian actor Yura Borisov. The pair worked together on ‘Guest from the Future’. In ‘Anora’ Mark Eydelshteyn co-starred with fellow Jewish actor Mikey Madison.

‘Anora’ turned out to be one of the standout hits of Cannes. After debuting at the Cannes Film Festival and winning the prestigious Palme d’Or, the film quickly emerged as one of the frontrunners for the Oscars.