Madonna's daughter dropped from her mom's biopic as singer's ex reveals film will be a 'great love story'

Madonna's girl Lourdes was gunning to play her parent successful the singer's upcoming biopic, but lacked the acting acquisition needed to instrumentality connected the Material Girl. 

The film, presently titled Who's That Girl, is yet successful the works, 4 years aft a publication was completed and astir 2 years aft it was enactment connected clasp portion Madonna embarked connected her Celebration tour.

Lourdes aka 'Lola', 28, was considered, but mislaid retired connected the relation to histrion Julia Garner, who was successful a 2 equine contention with Kathryn Newton, with Madonna and movie bosses struggling to marque a determination connected who should play the Queen of Pop.

'Lola was being considered for the relation of her mom, but she did not person the acting acquisition indispensable to play specified a hard part,' a root told DailyMail.com exclusively. 

Who's That Girl - a notation to Madonna's 1987 drama movie and azygous of the aforesaid sanction - is acceptable to chronicle her decades agelong career, arsenic good arsenic aspects of her idiosyncratic life, including her narration with Carlos Leon, 58, and the commencement of their girl Lola successful 1996. 

Carlos had been championing Lola for the role, claiming she was the cleanable casting to play the boundary-pushing singer. 

‘I anticipation they formed a gorgeous babe to play Lola due to the fact that she was arsenic beauteous past arsenic she is now,' helium told DailyMail.com successful August. 'They request to prosecute an histrion who gives disconnected strength, it’s successful her blood.

'Lola is simply a phenomenal histrion I deliberation she would beryllium great.'

Garner, 30, and Newton, 27, had undergone screentests for the relation and took portion successful an aggravated 11-hour audition process with the singer's choreographer. 

They were besides required to instrumentality portion successful respective publication readings with Madonna and had to execute her songs successful beforehand of her.

Garner, who played con creator and fraudster Anna Delvey successful Netflix hit Inventing Anna, antecedently revealed she prepared for the relation by studying Madonna's music, performances, and idiosyncratic life.

She besides joined Madonna onstage during her Celebration Tour successful Brooklyn, New York successful December 2023. 

Lola precocious opened up astir her vocation and said she would see acting if she was presented with a relation not 'too acold off' from who she is.

'I don't person a circumstantial goal. I astir apt should,' she told her mom's lifelong person Debi Mazar for Interview magazine.'

'Financially, modeling is simply a astute decision. I bask being precise hands connected with the campaigns I do, truthful that I'm not conscionable modeling, per se.

'I dance, I person a precise circumstantial consciousness of style, and I'm funny successful aesthetics, truthful I similar to incorporated each those parts of myself into my projects.'

She continued: 'I don't cognize however I consciousness astir acting yet. I deliberation it's astir uncovering a relation that wouldn't beryllium excessively acold disconnected from who I americium already.'

Madonna has been heavy progressive successful the film, which she announced was backmost connected successful an Instagram station successful July. 

The Vogue vocalist shared a montage of images of herself sat astatine a typewriter surrounded with what appeared to beryllium pages of script.

'I Need A-lot of Bandz to marque this………..OKAY,' Madonna captioned the post.

Filming is not yet underway but, according to a source, the interior scenes volition beryllium changeable astatine Universal. Exterior scenes volition beryllium taped successful New York City's Lower East Side and Upper East Side. 

Madonna's emotion communicative with Lola's begetter Carlos - who is the laminitis of covering and cannabis online store OG Daddy - volition beryllium documented successful the movie.

The exes archetypal met successful 1994 successful a accidental brushwood erstwhile Madonna was jogging successful New York City's Central Park. She fell large portion shooting Evita and gave commencement to Lola successful 1996. They divided the pursuing twelvemonth but person remained adjacent friends. 

'This movie is 1 of the top municipality emotion stories ever told,' Carlos told DailyMail.com. 'It’s an grant to beryllium a portion of history. 

'In the agelong run, determination has been much bully than bad, and my ex and I person a beauteous girl who was made with love.' 

American histrion Jencarlos Canela is the existent frontrunner to play Carlos, who antecedently said: 'I anticipation a young chartless Latino histrion from Manhattan is chosen to play Carlos Leon successful the movie. I privation the histrion to beryllium authentic to my heritage. 

'Most importantly the histrion should embody resilience and protective energy. I americium precise protective implicit my girl and her mother. I deliberation that continues to radiance through. Family comes first.'

The upcoming movie was archetypal announced successful September 2020, with Madonna revealing that she was moving with Oscar-winning Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody nether the rubric Little Sparrow.

Cody and Madonna finished enactment connected the task successful 2021. Diablo near and was replaced by Erin Cressida Wilson.

Speaking connected an Instagram Live astatine the clip the Papa Don't Preach vocalist said the movie would amusement her 'struggle arsenic an creator trying to past successful a man’s world,' arsenic she moved from Michigan to New York.

She claimed it would screen the 'happy, sad, mad, crazy, good, atrocious and ugly' times. 

She had antecedently rejected the conception of a 'biopic' claiming the task was a 'visual autobiography.'

'Don’t telephone it a biopic,' she told The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon successful October 2021. 'The crushed I’m doing it is simply a clump of radical person tried to constitute movies astir me, but they’re ever men.'

Madonna recovered fame with her 1983 eponymous debut workplace medium earlier releasing a drawstring of hits including Vogue, Like a Prayer and Frozen.

She besides starred successful films including Desperately Seeking Susan and Evita, which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

She was joined to Sean Penn from 1985 until 1989 and aboriginal joined Guy Ritchie successful 2000. The pair, who stock lad Rocco, 24, divided successful 2008. She is besides ma to adopted children David, 19, Mercy, 18, and twins Stella and Estere, 12.