No one is saying that Mikey Madison didn’t deserve warm congratulations on achieving Oscar success with Anora, although Demi Moore’s face suggested otherwise. No one is saying that Brutalist star Adrian Brody wasn’t the architect of his own triumph. Yet, no one can deny that the path to success for both these performers has been covered with material far more structurally sound than B&Q’s cheapest pea gravel. Madison’s parents are Los Angeles psychologists. Brody’s are a retired history professor and a Village Voice photographer. The point? Yet more examples of how it can be all too easy to make that leap into performing when your parents can potentially bankroll you until you’re old enough to draw the state pension.

But a new documentary film released this week reminds us that ordinary working-class young people can, if given the chance, hit the earth like a meteorite. And Sadie Frost’s Twiggy should, after its cinema release, be shown in schools as an example of how lurking possibility is all too often ready to be unleashed.

Yes, you may say that Lesley Hornby, as she was, was nothing out of the ordinary. When ‘discovered’ by the older brother of one of her co-workers at the salon where she worked as a Saturday girl, she was indeed, as writer Shawn Levy described, ‘sexless, domestic, painfully ordinary, not at all like the beautiful model star of the moment Jean........

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