In an interview withJimmy Fallonon Thursday’s episode ofThe Tonight Show, the 63-year-old pop star revealed that sheturned down a roleinThe Matrix.
“Can you believe that?” she told Fallon, 47. “That’s like one of the best movies ever made. A teeny-tiny part of me regrets just that one moment in my life.”
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Released in 1999,The Matrixfollows a hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves), who gets stuck inside a simulated reality.The sci-fi film grossed$171.5 million domestically and $466.3 million globally, according to Box Office Mojo, and earned dozens of awards.
Madonna confirmed that she also missed out on playing Catwoman inBatman Returnsand a leading role inShowgirls, though she only regrets the former.
“I saw them both and I regret that I turned down Catwoman, that was pretty fierce,” the Grammy-winner confessed. “Showgirls? No.”
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Currently, Madonna is back in the director’s chair for a movie about her life. The artist has directed two other films:Filth and Wisdom(2008) andW.E.(2011).
Studios had previously attempted to produce movies about Madonna’s life, but none of met her standards. One film, she told Fallon, was “the most hideous, superficial piece of crap I’ve ever read.”
“I’m thinking, ‘Why would these people want to make a movie about my life?’ There’s nothing true in the script,” she explained, adding that a director behind one of the proposed films “had no appreciation for women.”
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In Sept. 2020,Madonna announcedshe would produce her own movie about her life. “I said, ‘There is nobody on this planet that can write or direct [or] make a movie about me better than me.’ It’s just the truth,” the pop star told Fallon on Thursday.
A name and release date have yet to be announced.
source: people.com
