Madonna: Unplugged

The interview with Madonna in this week's New York magazine is a triumph. Finally some conscious editorial, a celebrity who has the guts to go there:

Logan Hill: You’re now something of an expert on Malawi. But when the activist Victoria Keelan first called you about getting involved, you said, “I don’t even know where that is.” And she hung up on you. Not too many people hang up on you, do they?
Madonna: I thought that was rather cheeky. She found me quite impertinent in the beginning. Like, “You’re asking the stupidest questions—do you want to help or not?” And she was absolutely correct.


LH: The documentary catches your son David on film before you tried to adopt him. What was that first meeting like?
M: He was basically going to the bathroom on himself. Of course, next day you come back with a truckload of Pampers. It sounds corny, but he just has these big, bright, intelligent, so-aware eyes, and I felt a connection to him.

LH: Tell me about your documentary’s director, Nathan Rissman. This is his first film. He’s a friend?
M: He’s the husband of my nanny, to tell you the truth. When Nathan showed up, it’s like, “Well, he just can’t hang around, he’s got to have a job.” He would make QuickTime movies of my children and e-mail them to me when I was on trips. They were so clever. So when this project came up, it just seemed like a no-brainer. He did everything from gardening to manning the camera for behind-the-scenes B-roll footage. Never did he say, “I’m not going to Starbucks—I’m too good for that.”

Read the whole thing here:
http://nymag.com/movies/profiles/46189/