During a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival, Madonna said turning 50 this summer isn’t going to slow her down. With her first directorial effort in the can (”Filth and Wisdom”), Madge claimed she’s ready to do more films and make more music.
“I will be making more music and films,” she declared.
Then, when one journalist said the fresh-faced Madonna could pass for 21, she jokingly shot back, “That’s because you’re standing far away.”
As she prepared to helm the project, the story of a Ukrainian immigrant musician and his two female roommates, the pop star didn’t have to look far for professional advice.
The singer (who also co-wrote the movie) admitted to Germany’s Spiegel TV that she asked Guy Ritchie, her director-husband of the past seven years, for “one sentence of advice before I walk into this.”
His answer? “‘Confidence.’ That’s the most important thing you need to exude on the set. No matter what you feel, exude confidence,” she recounted. “And that was good advice.”
Not everyone is thrilled to hear Madge has more movies in the works: The Guardian described “Filth and Wisdom” as “so incredibly bad that Berlin festivalgoers were staggering around yesterday in a state of clinical shock, deathly pale and mewing like maltreated kittens.”
Awww, maltreated kittens are sad.
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February 18th, 2008 at 11:37 am
I never understood why people just HAVE to go into directing movies. Some people just CAN’T do it. Apparently Madonna is not used to being told she’s not good at something though. So, she’ll keep doing it. She’ll keep sucking and we’ll keep making fun of her.
Oh, I guess it is win/win then.
February 18th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
She looks like a wraith. David’s adorable, though.
February 18th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
David is a cutie.
February 18th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Madonna had no talent (other than for self-promotion) even at her peak. At this point she is basically just doing self-financed vanity projects. There is like zero interest from the general public in anything she does anymore.