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FASCINATING READ!
https://www.vulture.com/article/what-its-like-to-work-with-madonna-on-a-movie-set.html
 
highlights:
 
 
Madonna and Trump
Foley was planning to shoot a scene in front of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, and Donald Trump apparently stipulated that he wanted a paparazzo shot with her in hopes of making the New York Post. Madonna initially refused, launching years of scorn directed at the real-estate cheat. (“He’s a wimp,” she told Interview in 1990 when asked about his budding presidential prospects.) But Foley insisted, knowing that Warner Bros. had already negotiated access to the building. “It was one of those moments where I had to say, ‘You gotta do this,’” he says. “I don’t think she made eye contact with him.”
 
Madonna considered for Ruthless People
“At that dinner, we were all mesmerized by her,” Jerry says. It would have been an opportunity for Madonna to go over-the-top, to kick and scream and scheme. But something didn’t click. The audience needed to believe her husband hated her, and Madonna showed too much charm to drive a man away. Plus, at 27, she still seemed a bit young to play a housewife. Eventually, everyone agreed it wasn’t the right fit.
 
Madonna and Spike Lee
After the back-to-back bombs Body of Evidence and Dangerous Game, casting Madonna wasn’t exactly in vogue. “I didn’t give a fuck,” Lee says. “She’s who I had in mind, and she wanted to do it, so that was it. She’s a pro.” Ever since, they’ve had a symbiotic back-and-forth. Madonna’s team gave Lee a discount on a couple of Ray of Light tracks he wanted to use in his Netflix adaptation of She’s Gotta Have It, and he gave her feedback on the script for the since-canned biopicthat she was going to direct about herself. Lee says she also gave him a friendly talking-to when his son, Jackson, was apparently pursuing Madonna’s daughter, Lourdes. “She said, ‘Spike, your son is bothering my daughter,’” Lee laughs
 
Chicago
Weinstein also floated the idea of casting Janet Jackson, Poster says, but it never went anywhere. Imagine Chicago starring Janet and Madonna!
 
Image change for Evita
“We had this really candid conversation with Liz Rosenberg,” says a former Disney marketing executive, referring to Madonna’s former longtime publicist, “and said, ‘She’s going to have to transform over the next year.’ If you go back and look at what she wore to public events, she was sort of buttoned-up. Liz saw the wisdom in an image shift.”
According to Peter Adee, another Disney marketing veteran, Madonna was one step ahead of Rosenberg. She understood that softening the reputation that Sexand the R-rated album Erotica had given her a few years earlier was essential to winning over highbrow Hollywood types, especially because gossip hounds were calling her first pregnancy a PR stunt. (“Some people have suggested that I have done this for shock value,” she said. “These are comments only a man would make. It’s much too difficult to be pregnant and bring a child into this world to do it for whimsical or provocative reasons.”) Disney sold Evita as an elegant love story above all else, and Madonna partnered with fashion brands like Bloomingdale’s, Dior, Ferragamo, and Estée Lauder for in-store displays and cosmetic lines that gave the campaign an upscale sheen. She weighed in on every detail. Forever indebted to the Old Hollywood luminaries she idolized, Madonna remade herself the way Elizabeth Taylor would have. “There are times in advertising where you wink, wink, nod, nod — you make fun of it,” Addee says, referring to Madonna’s spotty acting résumé. “We never did. We sold it as Evita starring Madonna, basically saying, ‘This is something new.’”

I have to agree.  While I will agree the collabs weren't as iconic as she's done, they really helped her gain more awareness on social media.  I don't think anyone ever claims what she did there was "classic", but it definitely was a great way to keep in touch with a younger generation. And you can say, "well, fuck the Tick Toc crowd", etc, but it's those people who will keep her relevant in the years to come.  Madonna is no stranger to keeping tabs on the current trends.  Whether you hate them or not, without them, she will never remain relevant in current generations.  And let's not pretend, Madonna hasn't been known to team up with even the cheesiest acts throughout her career. She's an older act, so if you are logical about it all, she definitely does benefit in teaming up with whom is current.  And let's not pretend who she teamed up for Frozen remixes and Hung Up were very main stream.  They weren't, but it really helps her keep mainstream nevertheless.

Madonna at Pride events is becoming a new tradition. 

070 Shake is amazing tho.
And Tokischa, being as divisive as she is, is always fun to listen! 

Hopefully she has something to do in the song or the album in some way. 🤞🏻

I would love for her perform the vogue segment of the Celebration Tour and hung up with Tokischa

I just posted about it, but some people are invested in drama 🥲
Yeah! She has confirmed that she'll be part of Lady Land! 🥳

I just posted about it, but some people are invested in drama 🥲
Yeah! She has confirmed that she'll be part of Lady Land! 🥳

https://x.com/milenastralves/status/1806353938813227020?s=46

I just posted about it, but some people are invested in drama 🥲
Yeah! She has confirmed that she'll be part of Lady Land! 🥳

https://x.com/milenastralves/status/1806353938813227020?s=46

I just posted about it, but some people are invested in drama 🥲
Yeah! She has confirmed that she'll be part of Lady Land! 🥳

Actually ☝🏻🤓 this is her third Madonna reference. She sang LAV on a show not too long ago, then said M was one of her inspirations, and now this.
She's the it girl rn, and she seems very cool and chill. I like her.

Yes, I am. Since the 80s. Not all gays are into pride you know, and I was being sarcastic about Taylor Swift, I can't stand her.

She looks hot and gorgeous!

Some of you are just being mean, this girl does not deserve your hate. I love her music, hopefully she'll tour Europe soon and I'll get to see her live.

I think it's this fantastic item
 

"Nobody", "whobrina"... Are you guys twelve? 

Nice to know the length of the dress, the girl looks good.

She's wearing (and devouring) Madonnas dress so it stays. Request denied

Such a cool thread!!!!!  I've never seen a location where Madonna has filmed a video or movie. But,  the "Don't Tell Me" video and some of it's visual locations represent my State the most. Does that count? 

No because DON'T TELL ME  was filmed in a studio.  The OP post of PDP and few other videos she's filmed like LIKE A VIRGIN and TAKE A BOW were filmed on location.  She was actually in those locations.  As static/boring as Love Don't Live Here Anymore video is to some, it is another video that was filmed on location of a specific location and not reproduced by the studio. 
That being said, I would be curious to know what actual locations were used in the backdrop of DTM video?  There are many western states in the U.S. these shots could have come from... including regions where @Vogueristacomes from.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/973364117854640?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&mibextid=xCPwDs
Nellee Hoopper used Madonna’s moans from Bedtime Story in his remix of Garbage’s #1 Crush for the Romeo & Juliet soundtrack. One of my favourite songs and I had not idea, but now that I know I can totally hear it. Pretty cool. I wonder if she got paid for that

Apparently Sean's still loves Madonna as she does him, and claim they are friends. He is reported to speak about the abuse rumors for the first time ever while Madonna has stated several times in the past he never abused her. Here's the E! NEWS video where he is said to speak of their rocky marriage.  I am not sure where E! News obtain his conversation on this, so I don't know how much of what is reported here is out of context.  Still interesting to hear his supposed side of things.