🎨 Madonna's Son Rocco Ritchie Has An Incredible Art Exhibition In Paris!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Yes, so Rocco Richie is
twenty four years old. He is, as I said, the
son of Madonna and Guy Ritchie. I think he spent
a lot of time growing up with his dad, who's
an English filmmaker. He makes all those lock stock and
two smoking barrel kinds. Yeah, those kind of gangstery, faux sexy, sharp, smart,

(00:21):
gangstere films. Am I right in saying that, Yes, it'd
be very hard growing up in that household. I imagine
being the child of Madonna, the most famous woman in
the world, and all the permutation she goes through to
stay young, to stay in front, to stay unusual, all
this stuff. He is now an artist, and I saw

(00:43):
a thing recently where he was talking about his art exhibition.
He's got an exhibition in Paris called The Tourist. He
was beautifully dressed in a beautiful suit. He can speak French,
so he introduced it all in French, and then he
was explaining the nature of his paintings. And even though
he's grown up in a very privileged position, he's not

(01:03):
poor me. He's just tried to make sense of his
place in the world. I found him quite engaging.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
A lot of the pictures in this show are based
off of paparazzi pictures from my teenage years. Let's say
at the time, these pictures used to really haunt me
because you know, I was just trying to do what
most teenagers do. And then I would wake up with,
you know, images in the papers.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
I do remember a bunch of pictures of him. It
was a picture of him drinking beer. That's right, the
bridge pretty much, yes, And he said, you know that photo.
He could have let it haunt him. Instead, he's turned
it into a painting. He said, this is how he's
going to turn things around for himself.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I definitely, for a few years struggle with a sense
of identity and a certain sense of confidence because I
always felt like I had to, you know, live in
the shadows of And then I realized that, you know,
this is how it is, and this is my life. Better,
you know, embrace it and had it straight on then
have to hide for the rest of my life. And

(02:05):
so I thought, what could.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I make of it?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
And lucky enough, I'm a painter, so I'm making paintings
of it.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Which is is it? Because a lot of people would
say he's the luckiest guy in the world, have all
that privilegion, all that money, etc. But as he said,
he came to terms with, Okay, this is my life.
How do I let it define me? And there's no
self pity. I was very taken with him, and he's
met a number of people on the way who just
didn't really give a rats about who he was, and
they are the main people in his life.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I think this is South Bank itself a very deep
place in my heart because it actually was the place
where I formed my first bit of identity.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
And you know, I.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Met my first, I would say, my rawest friends in
this place, because the truth is they didn't care who
you were. They didn't care where you came from. It
was just like were you good at skating? And could
you hang? Like, you know, could you hang? This was
like my place of freedom. It was my escape. That's
what you go to do, going to hang.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
But I was really taken with him. He could have
been a brat and all that stuff, and I found
him quite self effacing. And his paintings are lovely And
as I said, there he was in this beautiful suit
leading people through the gallery to explain what his paintings were.
I was very taken with him. One wonders what your
boys will do. You are on the same trajectory as Madonna. Yeah. Yes,

(03:25):
picture of you and your underpants trying to find a
shoe under the bed. Look the minute my children find
my sex book in Trouble, it's called Take five, and
the magazines are under the bed.