Up to 11 hours of rehearsals, image changes and months and months of auditions with singing and dancing tests. Madonna has spent almost two years searching for her perfect alter ego on the big screen. The protagonist of biopic -which is rumored to be called ‘Live To Tell’like her famous ballad from 1986- is the writer and director of a project that she will record with Universal Studios about his musical career spanning more than five decades. The film will begin when the Ciccone arrived in New York in the 1970s, years in which the ‘underground’ cultural scene was submerged, and will continue until its mass success and its multiple reinventions in all these years. His songs will have a lot of weight on the tape. “The focus of this film will always be music. Music has kept me moving and art has kept me alive”, explained Madonna, who has summed up her project as follows: “I want to tell the incredible journey in which life It has taken me as an artist, a musician and a dancer. A human being trying to find his place in the world.”
Unlike Elton John, for example, who only intervened as a consultant in the film about life, ‘Rocketman’, released in 2019, Madonna has indeed taken the bull by the horns and does not want to leave a single end loose. She will be the singer herself who gets behind the camerasas already advanced ‘The Guardian’. After all, he has already directed a couple of times before, the film ‘Obscenities and Wisdom’ (2008) and ‘Wallis and Eduardo: The romance of the century’ (2011). In addition, it will have Amy Pascalthe almighty producer behind the ‘Spider-Man’ saga, and with Devil Cody, the screenwriter of ‘Juno’ who won the Oscar for the script of that film, who has been in charge of writing a script that is already finished and ready to shoot. But first, Madonna has to choose the actress or singer who will embody her. And the ‘casting’ is very close.
The director of this Carmen Cubahas advanced to ‘The Hollywood Reporter‘ the names of seven actresses and two singers who have already passed the first cut, and three of them are protagonists of the fashion series ‘Euphoria’. At the same time, who is going to play the role of Madonna in another upcoming film is the actress Evan Rachel Wood. It will be in ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’, in which Daniel Radcliffe plays the title role of the legendary American comedian.
For the ‘biopic’, these are the candidates 👇
The first candidate that sounded was Julia Garner. The 28-year-old American actress and star of ‘Ozarks’ and of ‘Who is Anna?’ (both on Netflix), save a strong resemblance to Madonna in her younger years. Fans believed that she had the paper in the sack when the last August the singer of ‘Like a Virgin’ began to follow her on Instagramand almost at the same time so did Guy Oseary, an old manager of the singer. Another point in Garner’s favor is that she has been married, since 2019, to the singer Mark Fosterleader of the band Foster the People, which could help her face the musical part of the character.
Media such as the ‘Daily Mail’ ensure that the producers and industry bosses who are helping Madonna put together the film have a clear candidateFlorence Pugh. The 26-year-old British actress became known internationally for her role as Amy March, the little sister of ‘little women‘, a film for which in 2019 she was nominated for a Bafta and an Oscar for best actress. Three years earlier she had already triumphed as a leading lady in the independent ‘Lady Macbeth’, and last year, for playing Yelena Belova, in ‘Black Widow’. Like Garner, she also has a slight advantage in terms of music, since she usually goes up song versions in Youtube. In them the timbre of his voice is striking, very serious [el de Madonna también es un mezzosoprano a veces muy rotundo]. In Pugh’s case it is due to a birth ailment, as she suffers from tracheomalaciaa condition that collapses his trachea.
Of Mexican descent, the American actress and singer alexa demie31, is known worldwide for her role as Maddie Perez in the HBO series ‘euphoria‘. Her debut on TV was much earlier, in 2016, in the series ‘Ray Donovan‘. Like his previous opponents, he also has significant musical experience, as his grandfather is Dennis Wilsonmember of the legendary Californian band The Beach Boys. And among his friends he has a very special friend, Rosalía herselfwith whom he usually goes out to dinner.
The young American actress sydney sweeney24, has been one of the last to appear at the auditions for the ‘biopic’, given the popularity she has enjoyed in recent months, for her character as Cassie Howardin the series of euphoria‘. Few remember, however, that she also played a young wife in the second season of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. She has also appeared in Tarantino’s film ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ and in the series ‘The White Lotus’.
The body-positive model and New York actress of Brazilian descent Barbie Ferreira she is also among the last candidates to play Madonna. The Kate Hernandez such a friend of Cassie Howard (Sweeney) in ‘Euphoria’, now she is his direct rival to get the role of the queen of pop.
the scottish emma laird, 23, is just now beginning to stand out in series and movies. Her most important role to date is that of Iris, a high-end prostitute, in the Paramount fiction + ‘Mayor of Kingstown’. He has also starred in several advertising campaigns, in addition to parading for the famous designer Vivienne Westwood. ‘Variety’ magazine listed Laird in 2021 among the ‘top 10’ British women.
In 2015, ‘Elle’ magazine referred to Odessa Young as “Australia’s brightest rising star”. The discreet actress, 24, has participated in films such as ‘Looking for Grace’, ‘The Daughter’ and ‘Shirley’about the novelist Shirley Jackson.
Born in Brooklyn, but of Albanian descent, the 32-year-old singer rose to fame with the ‘single’ ‘Take Me Home’, of the Cash Cash group. Baby Rexha She has been nominated for several Grammys and has collaborated with David Guettain the theme ‘Hey Mama’. He has two albums on the market ‘Expectations’ (2018) and ‘Better Mistakes’ (2021), and, in addition, he composes for top-level figures such as Eminem or Rihanna.
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Californian singer and songwriter Sky Ferreira29, started writing her own songs and uploading them to my space as a teenager. His first LP was ‘As If!’, in 2011, with songs electropop and dance music. His most critically acclaimed song to date is ‘Everything Is Embarrassing‘, which he composed with Dev Hynes. She has opened for Miley Cyrus and has also modeled for various brands and magazines.