Madonna helps singer do crossover act
Give Madonna credit (or blame) for the wig and high heels that Gogol Bordello singer Eugene Hutz donned when his band played Terminal 5 here the other night.
Her Madgesty introduced the lower East Side’s gypsy king to cross-dressing while shooting her directorial debut, “Filth and Wisdom.”
“She suggested it,” Hutz tells the New Tork Daily News columnists Rush & molloy. “I love jumping into an entirely different persona – especially the opposite sex.”
The 30-minute film, described as a “comedy/drama/musical/romance,” is said to deal with everything from ballet school to lap dancing.
“I’m the star,” says Hutz, who wrote some of his own dialogue. “She’s behind the steering wheel. It was mutual inspiration.”
The freewheeling Hutz and Miss Precision made an odd pair when they performed together at Live Earth last summer. But he says he didn’t find her to be a control freak.
“She was very specific, but she also understood that people like me need to be left in their elements,” says Hutz.
“Filth and Wisdom” is due to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian-born Hutz, whose family fled to Vermont after the Chernobyl nuclear crisis, will return to Russia to perform at the Kremlin.
“We’re playing where the Politburo used to sit,” says Hutz, who vows that Gogol Bordello will wake up the embalmed body of Lenin. “Our music is analytically designed to make his booty dance.”
From the New York Daily News.