Edie

Amid the slim packs of pre-rolled cones, Edie Parker glassware and copies of “Broccoli Magazine,” Sunnyside stocks something else entirely: colorful bags of imported Skittles, tubes of entrée-flavored chips and instant noodles in bright, crinkly packs.

Edie Turquet, one of the young female dancers and strippers in the film, text me to say it was "insane" that a film about sex workers could win best picture at the Oscars.

Edie Turquet was initially unsure whether to take part in the film.

Edie points to 2020 film Zola, about a waitress who goes to Florida for a weekend of stripping for quick cash.

"Without being able to make noise, we can’t make money," says Edie Kench-Andrews, general manager of the Moth Club, in Hackney.