David Harbour continues to be hung up on his shock audition for Madonna, who had been secretly casting her directorial debut.
Jimmy Kimmel Stay
Looks as if Madonna was loopy for David Harbour.
The Queen of Pop, 64, was allegedly so taken by the “Stranger Issues” star, 47, that she invited him to secretly audition for her 2011 movie “W.E.”
“It was a loopy factor. It was an actual cloak-and-dagger sort of expertise,” Harbour recalled Wednesday on “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!”
The “Materials Lady” singer helmed the historic drama, which follows two ladies — Edward VIII’s spouse, Wallis Simpson, and present-day New Yorker Wally Winthrop, who turns into obsessive about the couple’s relationship.
“W.E.” starred Abbie Cornish, James D’Arcy, Andrea Riseborough, Oscar Isaac and Richard Coyle. Harbour performed Ernest Simpson, who was married to Wallis when she bought concerned with the royal.
“I bought a name from a casting director that I knew very properly saying they’re placing collectively a prime secret film read-through, however you simply have to point out up on the St. Regis and go on this room and all will likely be revealed,” Harbour stated. “And I used to be like, ‘That is actually bizarre and creepy.'”
He stated he was instructed the director — whose identify was not disclosed on the time — had seen him in 2008’s “Revolutionary Highway.”
“You might have a intercourse scene in it, and ‘they’ thought you have been horny,” Harbour claimed the casting director instructed him.
“So all weekend, I used to be actually fascinated by Ridley Scott and Martin Scorsese,” he quipped.
“I present up on the St. Regis and I get within the room, and there’s a bunch of different New York actors there and in walks Madonna, who’s directing this film. The very first thing that flooded over me, I used to be like, ‘Wow, Madonna thinks I’m horny.'”
The Publish reached out to reps for Madonna, who directed, co-wrote and produced “W.E.”
Harbour stated it was a “really harrowing, thrilling expertise” due to his lifelong crush on the music icon.
He stated he first noticed her in her “Open Your Coronary heart” music video in 1986. “I used to be 11 years outdated after I noticed that video, and so there I'm, on this boardroom of the St. Regis, and all of it comes flooding again,” he stated. “And I’m there with a bowler cap identical to, ‘I’m going to run off with you into the space.'”
Sadly, “W.E.” solely grossed $2 million on the field workplace. Harbour’s new film, “Violent Night time,” is anticipated to fare higher.
He admitted that whereas Madonna “is a genius in lots of realms,” the mission was “not a terrific film.”
“However there have been moments!” the “Pan Am” star acknowledged. “There have been dance sequences within the movie — in fact — they have been performed by her choreographer. However I keep in mind she’d are available earlier than we began taking pictures and go like, ‘No. That is horrible.’ And she or he’d redo the entire thing, and he or she was like magic when she bought in her dance world and stuff. She was unbelievable. I imply, she’s a genius.”
Post a Comment