Mikey Madison Says No to Shawn Levy’s Star Wars Film With Ryan Gosling After Her Oscar Win

After winning the Oscar for Best Actress in Anora, Mikey Madison is making it crystal clear — she’s not rushing into anything, not even a Star Wars film.

Sources say Madison was offered a role in the upcoming Star Wars movie directed by Shawn Levy, who’s coming off Deadpool & Wolverine, and starring Ryan Gosling. But those conversations ended quietly. Madison passed on the part. No headlines. No spectacle. Just a young actress making a deliberate move after years of grinding for a breakthrough.

This new Star Wars project is still untitled and mostly locked behind Lucasfilm secrecy, but it’s described as a standalone film, separate from the Skywalker saga. It’s being written by Jonathan Tropper and produced by Levy’s 21 Laps along with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy.

Madison’s name even being in the room says everything about where she is right now. At just 26, she’s gone from working TV gigs and genre films to carrying a film like Anora, which flipped the script on her entire career. And that film wasn’t just her first major lead — it was the first one she didn’t even have to audition for.

“I was scrolling through my Dropbox the other day and saw hundreds of auditions I’ve done — so many hours of work,” she said recently. “But then, everything that came after was extremely difficult.”

She’s worked for this. And now that she has it, she’s taking her time. Not every actress turns down Star Wars right after an Oscar. But Mikey Madison isn’t just any actress anymore. She’s someone who earned her way in, and now she’s calling the shots — one move at a time.