So Madonna has just given up on acting?

She was good in DSS because she was playing a version of herself. It wasn’t exactly a tour de force in acting.

She was good in DSS and Dick Tracy and that’s it.

"drudge something up"

oh, dear

Madonna's acting is fine as long as she doesn't have to show emotion. Look at "A League of their Own". She's fine in all her scenes but then she has to get emotional when they say they might shut down the league, and she's terrible.

I liked her in Evita, but she was really using her video skills more than acting.

Shhhh, OP, don’t encourage her.

R4, her acting sucks. That's one area in which even she will readily admit failure. That's part of the reason she can't stand Courtney Love, who is a far better actress.

The problem with Madonna is she still thinks she's relevant. Her malignant narcissism prevents her from acknowledging other talent and taking a reflective look back at her own career. That documentary she did a while back was a joke.

Her wardrobe is ridiculous. It's not the early 90s anymore and she is not the hot new firecracker who everyone in the industry wants to know. Even much lesser celebrities know when it's time to put down the spandex, act age appropriate and cultivate other opportunities.

i thiik she was not bad at The Next best thing, and the movie was ok until the last third which destroy the whole thing,.....Its is difficult to stras like her to be out of character, she has success when she plays someone like her anyways, she should stick with musicals like Evita

She has the same self-consciously over analyzing and carefully choosing her word thing while acting as she does in interviews. She can't seem to cut loose unless singing and dancing.

Plus I doubt she was ever coached or taught. A good teacher good have probably helped her out but she doesn't seem like the type to be cooperative.

[quote]Her malignant narcissism prevents her from acknowledging other talent and taking a reflective look back at her own career.

That's not entirely true. She praised Gaga early in Gaga's career. She's praised Britney, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Nikki Minaj, etc. She's not above recognizing talent and other's achievements.

[quote]Even much lesser celebrities know when it's time to put down the spandex, act age appropriate and cultivate other opportunities

Madonna has never been one to live by society's rules and expectations. She tried to tone it down and be a proper English gentlewoman for Guy Ritchie, but it just wasn't her and it turned out disastrous. She's an independent woman who plays by her own rules. So don't expect her to look, dress, and act like your grandmother simply because that's what society expects her to do.

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[quote]So Madonna has just given up on acting?

Yes. Around 2008, she announced she was giving up acting and concentrating on working behind the camera.

Did she ever try to get a role in Chicago? I think she might have been ok as Roxie or Velma.

R12, That's not however what the good folks at Kabbalah Centre say. She's acting everyday.

She should play Helen Lawson in a Valley of the Dolls remake.

R14, Does she still go to the Centre? Is there one in Portugal where she currently lives?

I'm sure she still goes R16, as she's full of shit and Kabbalah!

How can she give up what she never had? Acting skills, that is.

it is easy to hate her...but i think she is just an entertainer and strong woman, most people are just so insecure about her success, they did not want her to succeed other than music

Quite clever of you R18!

you could say the same thing about olivia newton-lez

R13, in the 90s she was announced as the star of an earlier iteration of the film Chicago. She was supposed to play Velma opposite Goldie Hawn as Roxie (!).

LOL. Acting gave up on her.

She’s interested in hawking her kids since her sex Appeal doesn’t work anymore.

She'd be good in tampon commercials.

You can't 'give up' on something you could never do in the first place.

At this point, she's proabably overdue for an Honorary Oscar.

She could have easily won Best Actress hands down for Dangerous Game but the academy awarded Emma Thompson for the obligatory British Oscar bait "Howards End"

As everyone knows, she was snubbed for a nom for Evita.

Songwriting aside, there's at least seven or eight nominations she could have receieved for Best Song:

And her two documentaries have been snubbed: "I am because we are" and "Truth or Dare" which she could have been nominated as producer.

She should have at least ten Oscar nominations by now with a possible two wins.

One could also say she missed on Supporting nominations for Desperately Seeking Susan and A League of their own.

Which would put her up to about fourteen nominations.

R26, More like a Vagisil commercial. I can see her now in her 80's leather get up: "You need to get yourself some motherf@&*%# VAGISIL, because your pussy's all ear-i-mi-tated.

^ Straight from Madge's Vadge.

Hollywood hated her. Remember when she turned down that script in 1999 about the Mother of a violinist, Music Of The Heart SO THEY HIRED MERYL STREEP?

In what world was it possible for Meryl Streep to be second choice TO MADONNA?

Finally, though I never saw it, I always remember columnist Michael Musto writing that he attended a preview of that Swept Away remake and how everyone left thinking it was pretty good..............then it opened to the worst reviews in years. It was like critics just had enough and wanted to destroy her acting opportunities and career once once and for all. To the eternal gratitude of film fans everywhere, they were successful.

Did anyone here see that movie she directed about Edward and Mrs. Simpson? I gather Andrea Riseborough (who played Wallis) was the only decent thing about it.

She's pretty great in "Dangerous Game". I even think she has some funny moments in "Swept Away". Her big problem is the same as a lot of aspiring actors and especially actresses; if you can not look like you genuinely care about another person, you can not be an actor. One of the few absolutes I believe.

The closest I ever saw her to caring was appearing with son Rocco on Ellen's show. She was genuinely charming.

Her acting is shit. But I agree her 2 documentaries (I Am Because We Are and Truth or Dare) deserved some awards attention. They were both excellent and eye-opening, of course for very different reasons.

R32, Madge didn't turn down Music of the Heart. She was all set to do it, and even studied violin for weeks. But she had disagreements with director Wes Craven over the direction her character would take and bowed out.

R33, WE was actually a valiant effort for a novice director. It wasn't great, but it wasn't bad. When it debuted in Venice, it was met with audience applause. However, the British press was merciless and the bad word of mouth killed its chances of succeeding. I don't know what possessed Madonna to think people would be receptive towards a film that was sympathetic towards Wallis Simpson.

Early in her career, Madonna was sent to Mira Rostova, Montgomery Clift's old acting coach, to study acting. But after a couple of sessions, Rostova turned her away, reporting to her manager that Miss Madonna cannot be an actress because she thinks she knows everything and refuses to listen.

She'd never do it but Madonna needs to release a film she directed under a fake name, get the praise and then reveal it was her (though I guess this would be impossible in this era of TMZ and Twitter). I believe the posts above about both "Swept Away" and "WE" being received well until the anti-Madonna cunts came out en masse, showing how hip they were. Neither movie is the disaster folks want them to be.

R38, funny you should say that, because one sympathetic reviewer (surprisingly from the British paper The Daily Mail) wrote of WE, "A lot of people will loathe it, simply because it's been made by Madonna. But if people were to watch it with no knowledge of who directed, they would be pleasantly surprised. They might even find much of it enjoyable."

she should keep doing musicals....like Evita or truth or dare, that is her string point and she does not need to convince anyone she is her which is what happened in her other films...other Alan parker movie or a Moulin Rouge kind of movie would be awesome, even on that film there are couple of her songs

I'd like to see her act again sometime, as an older woman. A supporting role in something campy, by a director that knows how to use her.

Madbot has lost her freakin’ mind!

Nobody who has seen Swept Away ever thought it was any good! Are you mad?! That’s like claiming people still listen to American Life!

Madonna can’t act because she can’t be vulnerable and put her attention on other people. Videos are more about striking poses and throwing attitude than sustaining a dramatic scene. Not the same thing as acting at all.

Yes, Madonna gave up her pursuit of acting to work behind the camera - where she sucked really hard.

I liked her in DSS and thought she looked beautiful in Dick Tracy - good songs, too.

I am probably alone here, but I enjoyed her in "Who's That Girl", which, for a blowzy 80s farce, had a lot of charm.

[quote] One could also say she missed on Supporting nominations for Desperately Seeking Susan and A League of their own.

One could, but one would be insane if one did.

Julie Brown as Madonna rehearsing Juliet. (GOTHAM's Donal Logue as Sean Penn.)

Julie Brown's "Medusa" is one of the all-time great satires.

Oddly enough, she makes the character somewhat sympathetic.

Madonna can't do a simple interview and come across like anything other than Madonna. As a character talking to another human it's the same thing. She can't act because she doesn't even come across as a human being even in real life.

Mad-Donna always dreamed of being Marilyn Monroe. Which is why she could not stand Julia Roberts when she pulled all focus from her in the 90s as the biggest female star in the world. She got to be what she wanted on an international level.

Cher was a good actress. Don't know why she gave it up.

"She's the one person almost as famous as me"

Cher was a good actress. She could even come across as plain despite her enormous persona.

Madonna's range as both a singer and an actress are limited. She was able to pull it off as a singer with some very catchy songs but didn't have the same luck with her movies. One New York critic called her performance in "Shanghai Surprise" as "frightening". She really needed acting lessons.

I think it's more a matter of acting giving her up. You can be a huge star, but if your projects keep flopping, producers aren't going to keep hiring you.

Courtney Love is a better actress than Madonna but neither was ever going to get nominated in 1996. Love was in the wrong category. Either her or Sony thought she was too big a star (she wasn't) to go supporting and ruined her shot. The movie was about LARRY FLYNT. She probably woulda been a shoo in supporting but whatever. Madonna wasn't getting in there either. It was a decent crop of women. Watson should have won but the others were all worthy even though I thought Scott Thomas who I adore was a supporting performance as well.

I do wonder what happened with Courtney Love's movie career, behind-the-scenes. But then again I guess it's hard to build a career in that town based on a good reputation when there are murder conspiracy theories about you. Who wants to go see an alleged killer at the movies?

Madonna might as well give up on acting because acting has certainly given up on her.

Singers like Madonna and Beyoncé fall into the same category - they have huge success in the music business and Hollywood thinks that this same success can be transferred to movies. Cher was able to pull it off, even winning an Oscar, but Madonna and Beyoncé were challenged in the acting department. Neither one has made a movie for ages and are not likely to in the foreseeable future. They showed very little charisma on the silver screen.

Madonna announced that she was done with acting a few years ago, and was concentrating on directing. W/E was not bad for a novice director, but Wallis and Edward weren't exactly subject matters that people were interested in seeing.

Gurl there is ZERO demand for this bitch's "acting"

I DEMAND more Madonna acting performances! Right now!

Doris Day is a perfect example of someone who started out as a singer and then transferred to movies and became a huge success. She had a ton of charisma and was a real natural. This is an exception to the rule in Hollywood where some singers make a few movies and then fall off the scope (like Peggy Lee).

See "Dangerous Game" for what she could've been. God knows she was effective in her videos. Maybe a strong performance is still in her.

Let's face it - she's a shoe-in for the Mae West biopic, which actually - sincerely - would be a really great film to make. Mae was scandalous and really rocked the boat - it would make an excellent film.

And -cough, cough, - Madonna has essentially turned into her physically already.

I love the old bag, but Swept Away was one of the worst films I've ever seen. And she was horrible in it.

She was fantastic in Dangerous Game. I'm amazed that she was so good in it. Abel Ferrara must have really verbally abused her for her performance to be so good. Unfortunately, she trashed the film immediately as it was released and Ferrara has hated her ever since.

Madonna is a void other artists fill.

After Dick Tracy, she was done.

I remember seeing Dangerous Gane on video. Don’t renember much about it and certainly don’t remember her being any good in it. I like her music at the time though.

She’s so embarrassingly BAD in Body of Evidence. When she lived in the UK, it seemed it was on tv all the time - like the schedulers were trying to humiliate her or get her to leave. It worked!

Evita was the perfect role for her because she got to do what she thinks acting consists of: parading around and posing. She's excellent at that.

Madonna can act, but she can only do it while singing. All good singers are able to act the part of the person in a song, and Madonna can do that, but it doesn't necessarily translate into the ability to act in the traditional sense. I'm sure she's put all her heart and soul into learning how to act, and still can't do it. We'd all have Meryl's 40 yr career, 90 million dollar fortune and numerous Oscars, if it was so easy.

[quote] Julie Brown's "Medusa" is one of the all-time great satires. Oddly enough, she makes the character somewhat sympathetic.

Because Julie Brown doesn't hate Madonna neither does anyone else who was involved in the production. They just thought she was funny and ripe for a parody. When it won an Emmy, they thanked Madonna for providing a target so big it was impossible to miss it. Madonna enjoyed it too and would play it at parties.

I thought Julie sent her some champagne and Madonna sent it back warm and half empty.

Actually if I recall the story correctly, Madonna sent Julie a bottle that was half-full with a note that read: "Dear Julie: I hope you like flat champagne" when Julie's film first came out. Julie actually drank it - it was evidently very good champagne. It was later one that Madonna began to see the humor in the film and she did tell Julie she thought it was funny.

Julie plays Medusa as self-absorbed, capricious, over-sexed and ill-tempered but she also gives her some really funny zingers and cute songs.

Medusa to her lumpen family: "You guys are really fat. Did you know that there is more to eat in this life than cheese and beer?"

Medusa's BIL: "We like cheese and beer."

Medusa: "Well, in California you would qualify for handicapped parking."

And her response to a "celebrity" stopping by to invite her to an after-party: "Wink Martindale wants to do me in a Motel 8!"

In music videos, Madonna is a star. But when she utters lines of dialogue, that flat, Midwestern intonation kills the magic. And her line deliveries have no emotional depth, as if she's too guarded to reveal her vulnerabilities, which makes her come across artificial, robotic, soulless. She is best served in supporting roles, where the emotional weight of the movie doesn't rest on her shoulders.

nobody would hire her 15 years ago for an acting gig, let alone now. She is a terrible actress. she is a one trick pony, a mediocre singer that parlayed media savvy into a career.

There must be another iconic Broadway show ready to be made into a film that she'd be perfect for. Come on, Show Tune Queens, cough up the suggestions! Too old for "Sunset Blvd."? (We want Glenn to get her Oscar for that one anyway so that's out).

In "The Next Best Thing", one of her last chances to make it as an actress (she had to have approval by the male lead Rupert Everett to get the role), a critic remarked that Madonna brought everything to her part except acting skills. Ouch!

It sounds like there was much quite a bit more behind the story of Madonna's "50 Violins" before it became Meryl's "Music of the Heart".

This was really Madonna's final chance at scoring the critically acclaimed part she desired, and If any role was going to require patience and subtlety from her this was going to be it.

Fresh from Evita, Madonna had been attached to the project for several years and made it up to the read through, after 3 months of studying the violin with Roberta Guaspari (who's story inspired the project). Wes Craven had reached the end of his rope dealing with Madonna's demands and her insistence on how the character be portrayed (Madonna thought the focus of the movie should be all about HER, and not the teachers relationship with the school kids.) So Madonna walked and left the project in ruins before Meryl gracefully glided in at the last moment to save the picture (and yes, learned violin in six hour days over eight weeks) to score her 12th nomination.

Meryl is amazing. Meryl proved herself by graduating from an Ivy league university in her early 20s. You can't buy that. Consistent

[quote] It sounds like there was much quite a bit more behind the story of Madonna's "50 Violins" before it became Meryl's "Music of the Heart".

The Madonna-N'Sync duet would have been a certain #1 song and Oscar winner. Even Gloria had a #2 with it.

Her performance in EVITA is painful to watch. She's just so lifeless and lost. You can tell they tried to salvage as much as they could in the editing by cutting away from her as much as possible but those dead eyes are just awful.

Madonna is probably foaming at the mouth over all the buzz Gaga is getting for “A Star is Born”, especially considering it’s her first starring film role.