Madonna Premieres ‘Confessions II’ Film at Tribeca Fest Featuring Sabrina Carpenter, Feid, Debi Mazar, Benedict Cumberbatch & More
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The Queen of Pop sat down with the film's directors and Anderson Cooper for a freewheeling Q&A after the world premiere screening.
Por Billboard | 06/06/2026
“A video seems…cheap,” Madonna told Anderson Cooper and a sold-out Beacon Theatre on Friday (June 5) night, shortly after the world premiere of Confessions II , a 13-minute visual project centered around her upcoming album Confessions II. The pop icon was explaining why her short film occupied the space between a mere music video and a full-length visual album (“Guy [Oseary, her manager] is always yelling at me to save money”) to a throng of diehards at Tribeca Festival. “It was good when it was just MTV and me,” she recalled of the music video’s golden era. “Those days are over.” Related Madonna Transforms Times Square Into Pride Month Party With Surprise Grindr Pop-Up Show How a Surprise Madonna Show Officially Unveiled the Secret New York City Music Venue In Times Square Boza Serves as Panama's Musical Ambassador for World Cup 2026 & More Uplifting Moments in Latin Music During a candid, freewheeling, no-phones chat with Cooper (who was subbing in for Jimmy Fallon, who dropped out of the event last-minute) and directors David Toro and Solomon Chase (TORSO) – whom Madonna described as “from another planet” – the Queen of Pop talked about everything from her early days in NYC to the previous evening’s Times Square pop-up performance to the many cameos in her Confessions II project. The Confessions II film is centered around the first six tracks on Confessions II, her hotly anticipated July 3 album which reunites her with Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) producer Stuart Price. As astute fans will know, that means this visual project offered approximately 2,800 folks the opportunity to hear four unreleased Confessions II songs: “Good for the Soul,” “One Step Away,” “Danceteria” and “Read My Lips.” A wild visual project that features paparazzi SWAT teams, forest people with green lasers shooting out of their lower orifices (“I wanted to try it but apparently it gets quite hot” Madonna drily quipped), a car crash, aerial flips over a dancefloor and loads (ahem) of hot hookups in a public restroom while Benedict Cumberbatch dances outside the stalls, the film demands multiple viewings – and sure enough, the evening was book ended with screenings of Confessions II. Aside from Cumberbatch, the visual features, among others: Sabrina Carpenter, who crawls and writhes around the dancefloor with Madonna during their duet “Bring Your Love”; Colombian singer Feid, who joins Madonna on the collaborative “Read My Lips”; Debi Mazar, who swings by “Danceteria” – a nod to their shared past, as pre-fame Mazar and Madonna hung out at the iconic, now defunct NYC club Danceteria and made out together “to attract boys” and help get the DJ to play Madonna’s cassette; Arca, who is credited on “I Feel So Free” with additional production; Honey Dijon, who produced a Billboard Dance Club Songs-topping remix of Madonna’s “I Don’t Search I Find” from her 2019 album Madame X ; genre-pushing British artist Shygirl; actress Julie Garner, who pops up lookin