Mia Goth built her career the hard way through years of rejection, fearless choices, and Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” in her headphones before every audition.
She has always looked like someone moving with quiet purpose. Yet her path was far from smooth. She spent three years auditioning and hearing “no” again and again. Howveer, she never built a fallback or crafted a Plan B. Instead, she committed with the kind of intensity that feels almost old-fashioned in an industry built on shortcuts.
Goth says she put all her eggs in one basket because success had to happen; there was no alternative. And, interestingly, that philosophy echoes someone else who clawed his way forward with a similar single-minded focus: Eminem.
The Connection to Eminem’s Hustle
Eminem famously chased a hip hop career not for glory, but to break out of poverty and build a better life for his daughter. His story has often inspired young artists, but Goth’s link is more literal.
Her go-to hype song for auditions was “Lose Yourself”.
“When I was auditioning a lot, earlier on, I’d always listen to Eminem”, she said in the recent interview on Happy Sad Confused. “You know, the song ‘One shot. One opportunity’. I would listen to that on repeat. I really would”.
So, before every nerve-wracking room, Goth walked in hearing the same urgent mantra that pushed Marshall Mathers from a Detroit trailer into the global spotlight.
A Career Built on Fearless Choices
Goth made an early impression in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac. Then came her run with director Ti West, including X, Pearl, and MaXXXine. Famously, a trilogy that built her reputation as one of the most daring performers of her generation.
Now, she is stepping into bigger universes. Currently, she is fresh from the success of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. Her upcoming roles include Star Wars: Starfighter and The Odyssey, where she continues her pattern of choosing parts that stretch her emotionally and artistically.
Ultimately, Goth’s story feels familiar because we have heard versions of it in Eminem’s own lyrics: the grit, the tunnel-vision ambition, the belief that you get one shot, so you take it.
And maybe that’s why “Lose Yourself” worked so well for her.
It belongs to artists who bet everything on themselves.
She did. And now she’s reaping the rewards.
