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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jake Coyle

SHOCKING: Maika monroe much more than scream queen returns to cannes - What They Never Told You

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Maika Monroe's career essentially began at the Cannes Film Festival. Her breakthrough role in “It Follows” premiered in Cannes’ Critics Week sidebar in 2014.

“I was a newbie,” recalls Monroe. “I’m pretty sure I spent my 21st birthday here. I was like: ‘Well isn’t that exciting, to turn 21 in a country where I could have drank in for years.’”

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