It’s been less than a year since Guy Ritchie and Madonna split up after eight years of marriage, however, in a recent interview with Esquire Ritchie, the director of the upcoming Sherlock Holmes said “And, of course, here you go: I still love her, But she’s retarded, too,”.
He still admires Madonna if the following statement is any indication – “She’s a manifester, if there ever was one,” he says. “First-rate manifester. Madonna makes things happen. Put Madonna up against any 23-year-old, she’ll outwork them, outdance them, outperform them.”
Even though he admires his ex-wife he doesn’t have any of her music on his iPod. Even so, he always thought of Madonna as his wife first, and so did their hometown of London. “Madonna, when she came in here, it was old-school London,” Ritchie says. “No one bothered her. ‘Hello, darling. How are you, darling? What can we get you?’ It was fundamental, old-school. It didn’t matter who she was. She was my wife.”
In the interview he implies that Madonna was partially responsible for his biggest flop as a director due to her part in 2002’s Swept Away in which Madonna starred as a shipwrecked trophy wife. It was a box office disaster!
Ritchie said “My sensibility is accessible. The first two accessible movies I made, Lock, Stock [and Two Smoking Barrels] and Snatch, they are accessible,” he says. “The next two aren’t accessible … Swept Away, which, well, everyone gets confused on, because of Madonna.”
My guess is that he simply got to be too boring for her. Madonna needs action, stimulation, creativity. And he was all like, “Babe, I’m going to step out to the pub for a few pints with the lads.”
That is so not true. I think Guy is hilarious. I loved his two “accessible” movies, as he puts it, Lock, Stock and Snatch. I hope Sherlock Holmes will be as good as them, I’m certainly going to see it when it comes to my town. And it’s good he finally accepts Madonna for the wacko girl she is. I mean, she’s cool but she suck the life right out of you. :))
madonna has great music but i think her time is up. she has already passed the lime light.
I think Madonna has a lot of fans but also a lot of people who are envying her! And what about Guy… he achieved his own success!
I’m surprised Guy stayed married to her as long as he did. I’m sure Madonna is tough to live with. Gotta love her music, but apparently Guy didn’t love it 🙁
Madonna is sure hard to live with, and I admire Guy for talking about her this way, although their relationship is over!