We caught up with Evan Rachel Wood to discuss her new role in 'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' (BeWeird) and why she believes being asked to play Madonna felt like “kismet”
When she was just 8 years old, Evan Rachel Wood got in trouble for pretending to be sick so she could stay home from school and spend the day dancing and lip-synching to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.” Twenty-five years later, when the creators ofasked her to play the inimitable Material Girl in their movie, it felt like “kismet.”
Like so many young women, Wood grew up listening to Madonna’s music and soaking up the artist’s pop culture-shifting, singular brand of female empowerment. Wood had a favorite Madonna song — 1989’s self-actualization anthem “Express Yourself” — and ate up the singer’s “utterly perfect” Marie Antoinette-themed. Madonna was an omnipresent force in her life.
As soon as she got the role in the farcical biopic, which hits the Roku Channel today , Wood began watching some of the music icon’s early ’80s interviews on YouTube. “I needed to know how she was conversationally and the cadence of her voice, especially in that time period because she evolves and changes so much. There’s been so many iterations of Madonna,” Wood says.
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