“It was crazy. It was a real cloak-and-dagger experience,” he explained. david port on the TV show Jimmy Kimmel live, when he recounted a casting where he ended up meeting the real Madonnawho was looking for him because he saw him as “very sexy”.
Harbor recalled being invited to “a mystery reading” because “the director” found him “hot” in Sam Mendes’ 2008 film, Revolutionary road.
The details of the meeting
As transcribed by Variety magazine, the popular actor of the series likes stranger things She received a call from a casting director she knew very well and told her they were reading a “top secret” film, but she just had to show up at such an address, walk into a room, and “everything will be fine,” she revealed. “And I was like, oh, this is really weird and creepy.”
Apparently, Madonna she was really obsessed with Harbor long before casting him in her film WE. (The novel of the century).
Harbor went on to say they told her, “‘You have a sex scene and they thought you were hot… And so, all weekend, I literally thought about Ridley Scott Y Martin Scorsese. I show up at the agreed address, walk into the room, and there’s a bunch of other New York actors in there, and suddenly Madonna walks in, who happens to be the one directing this movie. The first thing that flooded me was how to ‘Wow, Madonna thinks I’m hot‘”.
The film actor like violent night added that the attraction between him and Madonna was mutual and he called the audition a “a truly heartbreaking and thrilling experiencefrom his music video for Open your heart it was a formative moment for him in 1986.
“I was 11 when I first saw Madonna and there I am, in this room at the St. Regis, and it all comes back to me,” said Harbour. “And I was there with a bowler hat as if to say ‘I’m going to run away with you…’”.
Eventually Harbor was cast in the 2011 historical drama alongside Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough and James D’Arcy. Madonna co-wrote the screenplay and produced the feature film.
Two parallel stories, the first is that of the king Edward VIII, who abdicated in order to marry the American Wallis Simpson. The second, already today, is that of a married woman, and abused by her husband, who lives a beautiful love story with a cultured man, a refugee from the East who earns his living as a security guard.
The film was not a success
However, Harbor noted that he may have wanted to “run away from reviews” of the film upon its release.
“She is a genius in many areasshe said of Madonna. “The film was not a great film. But there were moments! There were dance sequences in the film, obviously, they were done by his choreographer. But mostly I remember her walking in before we started filming and she said: ‘No. It’s terrible’. And she did it all over again and it was like magic when she came into her own world of dance and stuff, it was amazing. I mean, she’s a genius.”
Harbor even went to Madonna’s birthday party, adding: “I danced with Madonna to Madonna’s music. On my gravestone, that’s all!”
Madonna is currently writing, directing and producing her biopic, with Julia Garner playing the Grammy winner for Good star.
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