At the Toronto International Film Festival, each movie showing opens with a pre-roll of messages meant to inform the press, industry folk and public about different aspects of the major event. Amongst the most outstanding of these ads is a serial of sketches featuring famous directors in messy scenarios, a form of parallel universe that would explode without the assistance of the festival's ubiquitous and dutiful orange-shirted volunteers. The ad ends with a thank you to the unpaid staff for all their tough work, and the audience, on cue, applauses resoundingly.
Maybe she hasn't seen a picture at the festival yet, or perhaps they gave her a posy of hydrangeas; either way, Madonna, according to a story in Toronto's Globe and Mail, did not quite show the same taste for the volunteers' tireless hustle.
The "W.E." director premiered her picture at the festival Monday night, and originally in the day, sat down for a press conference with a gaggle of international reporters. Backstage, before the event, word is that she refused to leave the volunteers to still looking at her in the eye. Instead, as a volunteer told the paper, they had to grow their backs to her as she made her way to speak with the assembled masses.
Clearly, Madonna doesn't deal comfortably with the short people press events; it was in Venice that she made her infamous hydrangea diss. Which, by the way, she refuses to let go away.
PHOTOS:
WATCH:
';var coords = [-5, -72];// display fb-bubbleFloatingPrompt.embed(this, html, undefined, 'top', {fp_intersects:1, timeout_remove:2000,ignore_arrow: true, width:236, add_xy:coords, class_name: 'clear-overlay'});});
