MadonnaTribe meets Carlton Wilborn
The MadonnaTribe Team is happy to present our readers our second brand new interview of 2006. After the “Drowned World Chat” with Alex Magno we are now glad to
sit down with another familiar “tour face”: Carlton Wilborn.
Multifaceted Carlton, who worked with Madonna in many legendary projects such as the Blond Ambition Tour, The Girlie Show and the Vogue music video not only shares with our readers an in dept look at the creation of those works but also takes us into his private world and his fondest Madonna memories.
What follows is a short passage of this exclusive interview in which Carlton reveals never heard before details of a cancelled Nike tv ad, shot the same day of the Vogue video. You can read in full by clicking on the banner below.
MadonnaTribe: Once all the dancer for the tour were chosen, they were then introduced to the public with the Vogue video directed by David Fincher. What do you remember about that shooting? It wasn’t your first time on a film set.
Carlton Wilborn: No it wasn’t my first time on a film set, but it was the first time on a video I knew it was going to be that big. We knew David Fincher was at the time a really big music video director, so that was a big deal and it was a video for Madonna so it was going to be everywhere.
We knew from the way it was designed that we were going to be featured in the video and not being just as extras. It was amazing. Oh and by the way that same day we also shot, as the cast of Blond Ambition, a Nike commercial that Madonna was going to do and that never aired.
It all happened during the first weeks of tour rehearsals.
MadonnaTribe: Can you tell us a bit more about this Nike commercial? There have been reports and rumours about it for a long time…
Carlton Wilborn: Well we shot it and I remember we were all dressed in different Nike clothes and Madonna decided who was going to wear what, and which dancers were going to be used for separate shots and I remember the moment when they wanted me to finish a workout of dance and then I had to flop down a sofa.
I don’t remember exactly why it never aired.
A special thanks to Mr Wilborn for also premiering his latest photoshoot exclusively here at MadonnaTribe.