-As excited as people are
to see someone from "Game of Thrones" --
the show is so loved --
I feel like you have been on the other side of fandom.
You are a huge Madonna fan.
Is this true? -Yeah.
-This is a lifelong adoration? -Yeah, since I was 8 years old.
-8 years old. -8 years old.
And I used to dress up as Madonna in my bedroom,
and I would try to copy the dance routines,
and I would be doing my Madonna look.
I´d borrow my mother´s makeup. I mean, I´d really go there.
-Yeah. -I´d go there on the look.
And it was a lifelong passion, you know?
-And you recently just got to see this --
was this the first time you´d seen her in concert or --
-This was the very first time
I´d ever seen Madonna in concert.
And I was in Australia. I was filming "Top of the Lake."
So I was in Sydney
with my dear friend Alfie Allen from "Game of Thrones."
-Yes, Theon Greyjoy.
-And I said to him, "Come on. Get us tickets to Madonna,"
which he did, and I was very excited.
And on the day of the concert, I was at home.
I got a text -- I got that familiar "ding"
of a text message on the phone. -Uh-huh. Sure.
-And I looked at the phone, and the message said,
"Hi, Gwendoline.
This is Guy Oseary, Madonna´s manager.
I understand you´re coming to the gig tonight."
-Is there a way to text in this voice?
´Cause I love it. [ Laughter ]
I want all my texts -- Yeah.
-This is how this particular text sounded.
-Yes, okay, great.
-Exactly that exact intonation. -Uh-huh.
-And it said, "I hear you´re --
I hear you´re coming to the gig tonight" --
continuing voice. [ Laughter ]
"Fancy jumping onstage with M? She´s a fan."
-Wow. [ Audience cheers ]
-I cried. -You cried?
[ Laughter ] -I cried.
-Did you cry -- Did you cry right away,
or was it one of those slow cries,
where you were like, "Oh, I´m not going to"?
-Do you know what? I look at it, and it was --
like, it was so involuntary -- the mouth opened,
then the slow wail of "Ahhhhhh!"
[ Laughter ] Yeah.
-And here we have proof. -[ Laughs ]
-There you are onstage with her.
So, there you are. -Yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ] -And so...
-Yeah.
-...did you have any responsibilities
onstage with Madonna? -I did, indeed.
I mean, I went to the concert. So, I went to the concert.
I was in the car -- I was in the car with Alfie
slowly becoming mute and physically paralyzed...
-Yeah. Sure. -...through fear -- abject fear.
I arrive. We´re there. I´m mute.
I´m just standing very quietly,
and Alfie´s saying, "Are you okay? Are you okay?"
I´m like, "Yeah, I´m fine. Yeah, I´m fine."
[ Laughter ] Madonna appears,
and I start screaming so loudly,
I think my lungs are going to come out of my mouth.
Alfie is saying,
"Babe, I know you´re excited, but can you calm down a bit?"
[ Laughter ]
Madonna starts doing "Borderline."
She´s alongside us. She´s playing the guitar.
I´m screaming.
She looks down and winks and renders me silent.
-Oh, my God. [ Laughter ]
She winked you -- She made you --
-She winked at me, I was silent,
and then the screaming started again.
-Oh, my God. [ Light laughter ]
-So they came up to me, and they said, "Okay, are you ready?
You´re going to go up onstage now."
This is for a segment
for Madonna´s song called "Unapologetic Bitch."
-Uh-huh. -And part of my time
between receiving the text message
and going to the concert,
I´d watched this segment on YouTube
and rehearsed the choreography,
because I didn´t want to make a fool of myself
in front of Madonna. [ Laughter ]
-Of course not.
-I was practicing alone in my apartment.
-Yeah. -Practicing.
That´s Madonna there. I´m undulating at Madonna.
So -- So, then it happens, and they say, "Are you ready?"
And I -- And I sort of go, "Ah."
-Yeah. -I just make that noise -- "Ah,"
because there are 22,000 people in the auditorium.
-Sure.
-And then they gave me a gentle push.
Performance mode kicked in.
Those three years of classical training, Seth...
-Yeah, they paid off. -Well, for that moment.
-And it looks like here
you´re screaming and holding two bananas.
Is that accurate? [ Laughter ]
And let me just say -- this is exactly what I wanted
the image of you onstage with Madonna to be.
-[ Laughs ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
The mouth. -Yeah.
-The mouth is open so wide.
The jaw had unhinged like a snake.
-Well, just congratulations on that,
and congratulations on "Top of the Lake,"
such a fantastic show.
Jane Campion -- an incredible director.
Elisabeth Moss -- your wonderful costar.
-Yeah.
-I really enjoyed the first episode.
Thank you so much for being here.
So great to see you again. -Thank you, Seth.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Gwendoline Christie, everybody!