No./3 Inside Madonna’s bootcamp
Actors are currently competing to play the musician in her upcoming biopic. Here’s how they’re being tested
Madonna in her iconic Jean Paul Gaultier conical bra
Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it — ‘Vogue’
Performing ‘Like A Virgin’ at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards
Wowing the world at Live Aid, 1985.
THE OPPORTUNITY TO play Madonna, in a biopic directed and co-written by the woman herself, comes once in a lifetime. No wonder everyone from Florence Pugh to Ozark’s Julia Garner are lining up to star in a film that’s said to span her early career through to her infamous and controversial Blond Ambition tour in 1991. With Madonna organising a bootcamp-style audition process, Empire breaks down what it takes to claim the top spot.