Madonna unveils racy short film featuring Sabrina Carpenter and Kate Moss
By Pierra Willix, Press Association Senior Entertainment Reporter
Madonna has released a star-studded short film featuring Sabrina Carpenter, Kate Moss, Richard E. Grant and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Ahead of the release of her album Confessions II next month, the American singer has released a film to accompany it.
After premiering at the Tribeca Festival in New York last Friday, Confessions II – The Film has now been released on YouTube.
The 10-minute video also sees Julia Garner, Gwendoline Christie, Honey Dijon, Odessa A’zion, Shygirl, Arca and Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon appear.
Chelsea players Cole Palmer and Joao Pedro also pop up.
The short film is set to six songs from the album – I Feel So Free, Good For The Soul, One Step Away, Bring Your Love, Danceteria and Read My Lips.
It kicks off with Madonna, 67, backstage at a venue being followed and filmed by female robots, before she then ends up in a forest and dances through lasers.
After dancing on a desk in a boardroom, she then crashes while driving to a nightclub, before she eventually arrives and dances with the famous faces on the dance floor and then in a bathroom.
That sequence sees her encounter Marty Supreme star A’zion, knocking a drink out of her hand, while Grant parties in a bathroom stall with two women and Christie peers over the partition.
At one point Madonna also sings, “He’s a DJ? Hide the cocaine” as Moss lifts her head into the frame.
Cumberbatch also urges attendees to “get up and dance” as he shows off his moves by the urinals.
In another shot, Madonna morphs into Garner, who had been set to star as the singer in a biopic that was later scrapped.
The film also features a string of steamy scenes, including one where female dancers pose with their legs spread out while green lasers shoot out of their crotches.
Confessions II – The Film also sees Madonna’s long-time friend Debi Mazar appear. The actress had also previously appeared in the videos for True Blue, Papa Don’t Preach, Justify My Love, Deeper and Deeper and Music.
They have been friends since first meeting at the Danceteria nightclub in New York in the early 1980s, with Mazar also doing the make-up for Madonna’s very first video, Everybody, in 1982.
She is also name-checked in the song Danceteria, alongside the late DJ Mark Kamins, who helped Madonna secure her first record deal and produced her debut single.
Madonna previously described the short film as a “single, continuous piece, weaving together interconnected, music-driven sequences into an immersive cinematic experience”.
She also said she decided to do something bigger than a music video as just producing one of those felt “cheap”.
The film comes ahead of the release of her highly anticipated 15th studio album, which is a sequel to her Grammy-winning 2005 record Confessions On A Dancefloor.
Madonna’s 2005 album is known for its nightclub music and hits such as Sorry and Hung Up.
