Mia Goth, Pearl and X
Ti West’s bloodbath X became a word-of-mouth hit in 2022, thanks in no small part to Mia Goth—who played two very different characters (aspiring porn star Maxine and elderly farm wife Pearl), an unsettling meta-element that added to the film’s eerie twists. Then, surprise! Goth returned in X prequel Pearl a few months later, an alarmingly detailed portrait of her aging X character as a deranged, stardom-obsessed young farm wife. The fact that Goth co-wrote Pearl wasn’t even enough to turn any Oscar heads—and the lack of Oscar horror attention is something she’s spoken out about recently—but she’ll get one last shot with West’s franchise when X sequel MaXXXine arrives later this year.
