Madonna performing Bring Your Love in her new Confessions II film YouTube
With less than a month to go until Madonna unveils her first album in seven years, the Queen of Pop is drumming up excitement for the release with her new Confessions II short film.
Effectively an extended music video made up of short vignettes set to the first six songs on the album, Madonna premiered her Confessions II visuals at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival last week.
The 14-minute video has now been uploaded to YouTube, with the Like A Prayer singer being joined by a host of celebrities that include friends, collaborators and other A-list guests who took part in the shoot.
Here’s a quick guide to all the celebrity guests you might have missed in the Confessions II film…
Madonna
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Unsurprisingly, the first face we see in the Confessions II film is Madonna herself.
This marks the first music video she’s appeared in since 2024, when she teamed up with The Weeknd on Popular, taken from his TV show The Idol.
While The Idol may have gone down like a lead balloon with critics and viewers, Popular itself proved much more… well… popular, becoming Madonna’s first top 10 single in the UK in 15 years.
Julia Garner
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Confessions II’s first surprise cameo comes at the beginning of the Bring Your Love segment, when Madonna suddenly transitions into Julia Garner, sporting her own take on the Grammy winner’s iconic Jean-Paul Gaultier conical bras.
Madonna and Julia already have a well-established connection, as the Weapons actor was due to play the pop pioneer in a now-cancelled film biopic and, later, a stalled Netflix series inspired by the star’s life.
While this project is seemingly still in development purgatory, the two stars are due to share the screen in the second season of Seth Rogen’s The Studio, which is expected to poke fun at the troubled production.
Sabrina Carpenter
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Bring Your Love then introduces Sabrina Carpenter, a featured artist on the track, who sports a matching outfit to Madonna.
Sabrina and Madonna premiered Bring Your Love, Confessions II’s lead single, during the Please Please Please singer’s headlining slot at Coachella in April, after which it was given a full release.
The pop tune gave Madonna her 73rd top 40 single in the UK, having so far peaked at number 29.
João Pedro and Cole Palmer
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From Bring Your Love, we head to the club setting of Danceteria, inspired by the 80s New York nightspot of the same name.
Among the first shots in the Danceteria sequence is a string of four men standing at urinals (the scene takes place in a club bathroom, we should stress), two of whom are Chelsea footballers João Pedro and Cole Palmer.
Last year, Madonna made headlines when she and her boyfriend Akeem Morris attended a Chelsea game, where Cole scored no fewer than four goals for the London-based team.
Kate Moss
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Another of the A-listers featured in the Danceteria musical number is Kate Moss.
She’s first seen applying lipstick in the bathroom mirror, before dancing shoulder-to-shoulder with Madonna and appearing in a close-up during the lyric “hide the cocaine” in what may have been a playful nod to her colourful past.
Odessa A’zion
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Odessa A’zion has the unenviable task of going head-to-head with Madonna when they have a minor scuffle during Danceteria.
The Bafta nominee is a real star on the rise right now thanks to her work in the film Marty Supreme and the TV series I Love LA as well as Stranger Things: Tales From ’85.
Gwendoline Christie
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Game Of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie is spotted peeping over a toilet cubicle wall while Madonna and a dancer are seen getting up close and personal.
She and Madonna have crossed paths numerous times over the years.
Back in 2015, the British actor joined Madonna on stage during her Rebel Heart tour, with the two sharing a moment together during her follow-up Madame X tour in 2020.
Shygirl, Arca and Richard E Grant
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There’s then a three-for-one when a trio of stars are spotted laughing it up in a toilet cubicle together, with musicians Shygirl and Arca sharing the screen with Richard E Grant.
Notably, Arca co-produced Confessions II’s opening track I Feel So Free, having previously joined Madonna on stage during her Celebration Tour in 2023.
Debi Mazar
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Debi Mazar is one of the 80s nightlife fixtures who gets name-checked in the lyrics of Dancerteria, so it makes sense that she should also make a cameo.
She and Madonna are lifelong friends, with the Kaos star previously making appearances in the music videos for her hits Papa Don’t Preach, True Blue, Justify My Love, Deeper And Deeper, and Music.
Archie Madekwe
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Richard E Grant’s Saltburn co-star Archie Madekwe also appears in the Danceteria segment of Confessions II’s visual accompaniment.
He appears during a section which mentions Danceteria’s real-life DJ, the late Mark Kamins, accepting a tape from Madonna on which she’d scrawled “Everybody”, in a nod to how she got her debut single played to the masses in New York clubs before its official release.
Honey Dijon
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Music producer Honey Dijon is one of the stars who joins in the group dance towards the end of Danceteria.
Honey previously put together the official remix of Madonna’s album track I Don’t Search I Find, before making not one but two cameos on her Celebration Tour.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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The last star to make an appearance in Danceteria is arguably the biggest name of them all, Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch.
He gets up close and personal with Madonna, when she grabs him by the head and makes him declare: “Everybody get up and dance.”
Feid
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Madonna’s Confessions II film was how she shared with the world that album track Read My Lips would feature an appearance from the Colombian singer Feid.
After he appears in the mirror of Danceteria, he takes centre stage during the Read My Lips portion, surrounded by versions of Madonna performing on screens around him.
Lourdes Leon
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Madonna definitely saved the best till last, though.
At the end of Read My Lips, her eldest daughter Lourdes Leon unmasks herself and declares “I wish a ************ would”, seemingly in reference to the previous lyric “shut your mouth”.
She also gets the final word of the piece, ending the I Feel So Free reprise with a “cut, *****”.
Madonna’s new album Confessions II is released on Friday 3 July. Watch Confessions II – The Film for yourself below:
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