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Madonna wants everyone to get up and dance, and that includes some of Hollywood’s biggest celebs.

In a new clip posted Monday (July 6), the pop icon took fans behind the scenes of her Confessions II short film, showing off how she got stars like Gwendoline Christie, Odessa A’zion and more to bust a groove on set to her new song “Danceteria.”

“This is a trip down memory lane,” Madge says at the beginning of the video before it cuts to a series of historic photos of Danceteria, the long-closed New York City nightclub after which she named one of the songs on her new album, Confessions II. The venue hosted countless wild nights in the early and mid-80s, which the hitmaker paid homage to in the “Danceteria” sequence of her film that dropped in June.

In the new clip, Madonna and her crew re-create the club’s vibes with a busy bathroom scene, in which she bumps into the Marty Supreme actress, who spills her drink, and gets caught hooking up with a guy in a stall by the Game of Thrones alum. “I’ve waited my whole life to do this,” Christie tells the BTS camera excitedly.

“I enjoyed your dancing, you were fabulous,” Christie tells Benedict Cumberbatch, who also appears in the Confessions II extended visual.

Before filming his flirtatious dance-floor rendezvous with the Queen of Pop, she hypes him up. “Are you ready to dance?” she asks, to which the British actor says, “Oh, yeah.”

Other big names in the sequence include Kate Moss, Honey Dijon and Shygirl, while Sabrina Carpenter, Julia Garner and more appear in other scenes of the Confessions II film. The long-awaited follow-up to 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor dropped Friday, marking Madonna’s first LP since 2019’s Billboard 200 topper Madame X.

Watch Madonna shoot the “Danceteria” portion as well as the full album film below.

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