Madonna, true to her style, wants to control all aspects of the film about her life

To the almost 40 years after his debut as a singer With the album that bears her name, Madonna can say that in the music field she has achieved it all, with 300 million records sold making her the most successful of all.

Madonna, what on August 16, he will be 64 years oldalso he is the one who has won the most in history with his concerts, man or woman, having raised almost 1,500 million euros with them. As if all of this wasn’t enough, she has won the Grammy seven times and has been nominated 28 more times.

However, her acting career was much more lukewarm and could never live up to the dream of being nominated for an Oscar, even if she won a Golden Globe for her iconic performance in avoid, The Alan Parker film in which he shared the poster with Antonio Banderas.

Even so, he knew how to make room in his busy music schedule to work under the orders of Warren Beatty in fuck track, Woody Allen in shadows and fog, Penny Marshall in They give the shot, Spike Lee in Girl 6 Y Guy Richie in unusual fate.

But if something it never went well, it was in his attempts to make a name for himself as a director.

In 2008 he debuted with no luck with Dirt and wisdom and even three years later he was not very successful with Wallis and Eduardo: the novel of the century who, starring Abbie Cornish and James D’Arcy, barely managed to raise two million euros worldwide.

Now maybe it’s time

Determined to seize what is clearly her greatest opportunity to change her career in this field, when negotiations began to bring her life to the screen, Madonna He made it a condition that she be the one to lead the project.

So two years ago, at the height of the pandemic, Universal announced that it was all about to begin, adding that to help him tell his life the Oscar winner for Best Screenplay had been hired, Devil Codywho took the golden statuette for his work June.

After finishing a first version, Cody went to work on another project and Madonna was joined by Erin Cressida Wilson, who has the new version of Snow White which Disney will release next year with Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler, who continued the development process.

For now, very little is known about the plot of this film which, however, does not yet have a name it is assumed that it will deal with the first years of the artist’s lifesince it has emerged that the grand finale will be with the tour titled The Blonde Ambition in 1990, when he was 32 years old.

Instead it did not escape the attention of the media therea complex search for the actress that the race will take place when the cameras start rolling.

Outstanding casting director Carmen Cuba summoned the shortlisted candidates to attend a grueling training session where they had to sing and dance in sessions that lasted 11 hourssometimes following the directions of Madonna’s personal choreographer and also of the diva herself.

The one chosen to interpret it

As is known, the chosen one was Julia Garner, who won two Emmys playing Ruth Longmore on the hit series Ozark. Along the way were rising figures such as Florence Pugh and Odessa Young, and lesser known such as Euphoria actress Alexa Demie and Emma Laird.

In an interview published on July 27 by the specialized weekly Variety In discussing his long working relationship with his manager Guy Oseary, the music legend explained that he has a particularly lengthy script that he is trying to shorten at all costs, even though the mission is proving very difficult.

consulted on his decision to be the producer, screenwriter and director of the film about his life, the singer explained without hesitation: “I’ve had an extraordinary life and I have to make a film that is also extraordinary. It was also a way to get past anyone trying to make a film about me, mostly misogynistic men. “

“That’s why I stepped in the door and said no one would tell my story but me“, He said referring to the powerful producers Brett Ratner and Michael De Luca, who some time ago bought a script called The blonde ambitionwhich was also to be produced by Universal.

In this sense, Garner, who also played the con artist Anna Sorokin Inventing Annahe played a worker in the independent film assistant (2019), in which he runs copies and commissions for a tyrannical Hollywood tyrannical. La di lei is a subtle and intricate performance illustrates how much women have to endure candidates in a male-dominated industry.

Those who are in a hurry to see an actress playing Madonna will come to the Roku platform this year Strange: the story of Al Yankovicabout this American comedian, singer and musician known for his lyrics that parody of songs by contemporary artists, with Daniel Radcliffe, in which Evan Rachel Wood will have the emblematic role.

Source: La Vanguardia / Gabriel Lerman

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