When Luna Sofia Miranda approached Sean Baker in a strip club in New York in 2022, she tried her best to charm him. But he "very clearly did not want to buy a lap dance," she says. Miranda, who was 23 at the time, started asking why he and his wife were there.

Certain professions are always reduced to pastiches by Hollywood. I find it almost impossible, for example, to watch journalists on screen. Decades on, we’re still taking surreptitious swigs from liquor bottles stashed in the top drawers of our desks and heroically investigating news stories our editors have forbidden us to pursue.