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What It’s Like to Work With Madonna on a Movie Set


Spike Lee and eight other collaborators look back on the highs and lows of the queen of pop’s Hollywood career.

She hadn’t yet stunned primetime-TV viewers by rolling around the VMAs stage in a cheeky wedding dress, and according to casting director Risa Brannon Garcia, the executives at Orion Pictures had no strong feelings either way about Madonna’s commercial value. Anxious to distance herself from that movie, which MGM reportedly recut against director Jim Goddard’s wishes, Madonna turned her attention to playing Nikki Finn, her savvy parolee in the screwball comedy Who’s That Girl. 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.

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