MRO: The biggest message that we were trying to showcase was acceptance, and what I touched on in the short film is that from a young age, we are told there are certain ways to look, certain ways to be and act. Do you want to speak to that a little bit? I couldn’t be more proud.īCM: Within the movie, you have these voiceovers, and there’s definitely a message that’s being shared in this film. She put so much love and attention and energy and hard work into it. And we wanted to make something beautiful that we were really proud of. She put her heart and soul into this project and into creating this vision that we had for two years. There’s the work side of skiing, and there’s the fun kind of skiing, but with Iz, it’s both. She’s the kind of person that it isn’t just a job, you know. We’re two females in the industry both trying to work with each other so that we can build each other up in the ski industry. We go out and shoot photos together, but most importantly, we just operated similarly and had similar outlooks. I was like, “Ooh, I really like working with you,” and then we just became really, really tight and close friends. We immediately hit it off and were best friends from the get-go. MRO: Iz and I met up at Alta four years ago or so.
I transitioned into more big-mountain skiing and focused all of my energy on that. I love that I have a background in ski racing, but really, skiing for skiing is the most important thing to me, and being able to be outdoors and in the mountains with the people that I love. I’ve always just loved skiing first, and that’s what it came down to. I raced for Westminster College in NCAA Division I there.īeing in the Wasatch in Salt Lake there are so many opportunities for backcountry skiing and powder skiing. That’s when my family and I packed up and moved from Michigan to Salt Lake City, Utah. I had a coach that told my parents that in order to take it to the next level, I need you to go east or need you to go west.
I won a lot of participation ribbons in the beginning and then really fell in love with it and competitively raced my entire life until college. I got into racing because I was born competitive. It’s actually a town hill in Traverse City, Michigan. We need to keep her busy and occupied.” So I hopped on my first pair and grew up in a small little hill. They were like, “This girl has so much energy. My parents bought me a pair of garage sale pointy-tipped skis. Madison Rose Ostergren: My background as a skier started when I was five years old.
This really isn't the type of movie I'd normally be into, and honestly from the trailers I thought it looked like s***, but hey, when it works it work, and this works.Backcountry Magazine: What’s your history as a skier? It's an over-the-top and melodramatic story, but somehow he directs it in a way that never feels that way, which is honestly a work of magic on his part. I think a big part of that is Bradley Cooper's direction, he makes the whole thing feel real and grounded and keeps us with him. There's something about A Star is Born that feels much more genuine in its motivations.
It doesn't have the same sense of grotesque self-importance that something like This is Us on TV or any number of Oscar bait movies past have had in their tear-porn intentions. However, I can't deny that the manipulation works and I was weirdly never bothered by the manipulation. It's tear porn, and it's explicit and deliberate in is manipulative intentions. Here's the thing: this movie is manipulative as hell, don't try to deny it.