{"id":2470907,"date":"2026-06-22T17:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2470907"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:58:15","slug":"madonna-interview-magazine-singer-talks-biopic-script-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/madonna-interview-magazine-singer-talks-biopic-script-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Interview Magazine \u2013 Singer talks biopic script fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<hr class=\"colorbar section-entertainment\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"display-5 subhead spacer-small\">The pop icon also claims Universal wants an &#8220;extortionist&#8217;s price&#8221; to get back her biopic script.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/05\/USAT\/90418209007-20260604-t-231756-z-682014526-rc-2-anla-8-pvfw-rtrmadp-3-musicmadonna.JPG?crop=4036,2271,x0,y403\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>See Madonna&#8217;s surprise Times Square concert<\/p>\n<p>Madonna took over Times Square for a surprise pop-up concert on June 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Video Team &#8211; USA TODAY Entertainment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/06\/06\/madonna-confessions-ii-film-tribeca-festival\/90352394007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a> just can&#8217;t Vogue like she used to.<\/p>\n<p>The pop icon opened up about the physical toll her decades-spanning career has taken on her body, explaining in a June 22 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/madonna-confessions-on-a-dancefloor-nadia-lee-cohen\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview Magazine<\/a> story that she has no cartilage left in one of her knees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a bad knee now. I have no cartilage in it,&#8221; she said, attributing the condition to &#8220;dancing for so long in high heels and running on pavement and doing Ashtanga yoga,&#8221; an intense and fast-paced style of yoga.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/06\/05\/madonna-concert-nyc-pop-up-show-times-square-grindr\/90418195007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a>, 67, continued, &#8220;Up until a year ago, I was jumping on trampolines and doing dance cardio and doing a lot of what a doctor would call loading on my joints. Can&#8217;t do that anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Madonna reveals the blunt reason <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/06\/06\/madonna-confessions-ii-film-tribeca-festival\/90352394007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">why she&#8217;ll never do a Vegas residency<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The singer hasn&#8217;t cut back on working out, though.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I do Peloton bikes and the Versa Climber and high-intensity circuit training. I ride my bike outside a lot. I dance,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Madonna&#8217;s knee troubles have been apparent during performances in recent years, including her 2023 Celebration Tour, which saw her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2023\/12\/14\/madonna-celebration-tour-review-sex-grace-health-scare\/71912326007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knee encased in a sleeve<\/a>, and her 2019 Madame X Tour, which led her to cancel <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2019\/10\/08\/madonna-suffers-injury-apologizes-to-fans-show-postponement\/3908165002\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiple<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2019\/11\/27\/madonna-cancels-three-shows-after-doctors-orders-overwhelming-pain\/4324040002\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">concerts<\/a> due to &#8220;overwhelming&#8221; knee pain.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">Madonna biopic halted after &#8216;falling out&#8217; with Universal<\/h2>\n<p>Madonna, who is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/06\/05\/madonna-concert-nyc-pop-up-show-times-square-grindr\/90418195007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promoting her upcoming 15th album, &#8220;Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II,&#8221;<\/a> said she was motivated to make music again after facing creative challenges developing her biopic.<\/p>\n<p>She told Interview that she worked on her script for two years with Universal Pictures before she and the company came to blows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a falling out, me and Universal, regarding budget because I needed \u2013 I&#8217;ve had an extraordinary life. I&#8217;ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They couldn&#8217;t get their heads around it. I found a way to make it for less money in Serbia, but I don&#8217;t think they were into the idea. Maybe they just didn&#8217;t believe in me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Madonna surprises fans <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/06\/05\/madonna-concert-nyc-pop-up-show-times-square-grindr\/90418195007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">with secretive pop-up concert in Times Square<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She continued, &#8220;One of their first reactions was, &#8216;We don&#8217;t believe you&#8217;d stay in Serbia more than four days.&#8217; And I said, &#8216;Did you read the script?&#8217; My whole life has been survival. I&#8217;m not going there for a holiday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said after the film fell apart, Netflix approached her about doing a series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was a whole other long process, because I couldn&#8217;t use the script I had with Universal unless I bought it from them for an extortionist&#8217;s price, even though I wrote it,&#8221; she told the outlet. &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask. That&#8217;s just the way it goes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY has reached out to Universal Pictures for comment.<\/p>\n<p>She spent over eight months trying to find writers and a producer for the series, with no luck she said. She thought, &#8220;Good thing I have another job because I need to work, I need to create. I need to do what I was put on this earth to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the awaited project, Madonna did manage to premiere a short film at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2026\/06\/05\/sean-penn-oscars-win-tribeca-festival\/90359951007\/\">Tribeca Festival<\/a>\u00a0in early June. Confessions II,&#8221; a six-song, 13-minute prelude to her forthcoming album, featured cameos from Sabrina Carpenter, Julia Garner, Gwendoline Christie, Benedict Cumberbatch and daughter Lourdes &#8220;Lola&#8221; Leon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pop icon also claims Universal wants an &#8220;extortionist&#8217;s price&#8221; to get back her biopic script. 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