It seems the issue of texting throughout films is still causing a bit of a stir and the latest offender is none other than Madonna. Yes, “director” Madonna.
According to IndieWire, the singer attended the New York Film Festival’s premiere of 12 Years a Slave, a film that a lot of people would have killed to get tickets to.
Madge with film director Steve McQueen
Madonna apparently texted throughout the first half of the film on her Blackberry and when asked to put her phone away she replied: “It’s for business… ENSLAVER!”
IndieWire published a post from film critic Charles Taylor who had passed on the following information from a former student.
“Tonight at the New York Film Festival premiere of ’12 Years A Slave’ (a masterpiece, by the way), I sat behind the unholy trifecta of Jason Ritter, J. Alexander from ‘America’s Next Top Model,’ and Michael K. Williams from ‘The Wire.’ Plus, a mysterious blonde in black lace gloves who wouldn’t stop texting on her Blackberry throughout the first half of the movie. Eventually, a woman next to me tapped her on the shoulder and told her to put her phone away, and the blonde hissed back, ‘It’s for business… ENSLAVER!’ I turned to the shoulder tapper and loudly said, ‘THANKS!’ and gave her a thumbs up. The rest of the movie, I kept thinking about how I wanted to tell the blonde what a disgrace she was. During the standing ovation, the blonde ducked out and Jason Ritter turned around to make commiserating eye contact, as J. Alexander asked, ‘Who WAS that?!’ Jason then looked down at the floor. His eyes got wide, and he picked up an envelope and showed it to us and J. And it said: ‘2 screening tix MADONNA.’ And sure enough, we looked to the side of the theater and standing against the wall in black lace gloves was Madonna. The worst person in America.”
“Director” Madonna.
