Wannabe Hollywood star (or nun)
U.S. singer Madonna performs during her 'Sticky and Sweet' tour at the Palace square in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) U.S. singer Madonna performs during her 'Sticky and Sweet' tour at the Palace square in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
As job applications go, it would certainly have made an impression.
A 21-year-old Madonna, longing for her big break, wrote to a film director who had advertised for a female lead - and wasn’t shy about telling how she’d been torn between life as a nun or in the movies.
She also revealed that at school she couldn’t make up her mind whether to be the “class virgin” or to be more promiscuous. And she appeared to try to cover up her age, listing her year of birth as 1959 Ð she was actually born a year earlier.
The previously unseen letter from 1979 has been published on website Letters of Note after being obtained by a fan. Madonna wrote to Stephen Lewicki: “By the time I was in fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a nun or movie star. Nine months in a convent cured me of the first disease.”
She went on: “During high school I became slightly schizophrenic as I couldn’t choose between class virgin or the other kind. Both of them had their values as far as I could see.”
Madonna duly landed the role in A Certain Sacrifice. The seedy thriller wasn’t released until she was famous, by which time she was so embarrassed she tried to have it banned. - Daily Mail