Mikey Madison is a Charli xcx fan!

During a chat with PEOPLE at the Gotham Awards in New York City on Monday, Dec. 2, the actress was asked about fans comparing her titular Anora character to the pop star — specifically calling her “brat,” a descriptive term made popular by Charli over the summer.

Asked whether she can see Anora (a.k.a. Ani) as “brat,” Madison, 25, replies, “I love Charli. Doesn’t everyone love her? I think she is the coolest, sexiest, smartest.”

“I don’t know. I did not have a brat summer because I learned what brat was too late,” she adds. “So hopefully I’ll have a brat summer next year. I had a nerd girl summer, but next year.”

Madison also admits she’s “not a party girl,” telling PEOPLE, “I’m like, a stay-at-home-with-my-pets kind of girl. But I admire the party girls and I just never felt in my body that attempting to twerk would be something that was natural to me. I never even touched that because I was like, ‘I’m going to leave that for the cool, sexy girls.’ “

Anora won this year’s prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, minting it (and Madison) an automatic contender in the 2025 Oscars race.

The Scream (2022) actress’s work in the titular role included learning Russian and exotic dancing.

Anora, from filmmaker Sean Baker (The Florida Project), follows the title character’s journey from Brighton Beach, New York, strip clubs to a whirlwind romantic elopement with the son of a Russian oligarch (played by Mark Eydelshteyn).

However, “once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled,” reads Cannes’ official synopsis.

Despite only a brief pole-dancing sequence in the movie, Madison took preparing to play a stripper quite seriously.

“I think I prepared even more than I needed to, honestly,” she told PEOPLE in September following her movie’s Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Preparation meant “multiple months training as a dancer” so that her character Anora “looks very seasoned.” That included needing “to learn how to twerk,” added Madison, “which was really important because that’s a big part of dancing at clubs.”

Although “certainly not a dancer,” she admitted, Madison earned “a different perspective” by training under a real-life nightclub performer: “It made me move my body in a different way and gave me, I don’t know, a different nuance to my sexuality.”

Anora is in theaters now.