Music Video
The music video for "Deeper and Deeper" was shot on November 7–8, 1992 at Ren-Mar Studios and The Roxbury nightclub in Hollywood, California, and was directed by Bobby Woods (who was also the executive producer at Madonna's company, Boy Toy Inc.). The 1970s inspired music video features Madonna playing the character of a woman (inspired on Edie Sedgwick) who visits a night club looking for her friends. In the video she walks and dances on the club until she finds her boyfriend (played by actor Udo Kier, who had appeared in the Andy Warhol films Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula and had previously appeared on her "Erotica" video) who seems to have a big influence on the character Madonna plays in the video. The video also features images on both color and black and white and also features the appearance and cameos of gay-porn director Chi Chi LaRue, Sofia Coppola (acclaimed director of films such as The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation) and Madonna's long time friend and collaborator, actress Debi Mazar, who had previously appeared on Madonna's music videos for her songs "Papa Don't Preach", "True Blue" and would once again appear in a Madonna music video 7 years later in Madonna's video for "Music".
There are two different versions of the "Deeper And Deeper" music video: One for the 'Radio Edit'-Version of the song which is edited in a bit more mainstream and accessible kind of way and a slightly longer version which fits the 'Album Version' of the track. The longer version has more footage of Udo Kier in it and it shows at the end how he cuts off Madonna's balloons. Additionally there's also a scene of Madonna and her girlfriends eating bananas while watching a stripper (played by porn actor Joey Stefano, who had also appeared on Madonna's controversial Sex book). The "Deeper and Deeper" music video also marked the first time Madonna appeared in one of her musics video with her eyebrows completely shaved off., according to herself one of the best things she ever did. It also features playing in the video a vinyl record with the Maverick Records logo, which had been just founded at that time.
Up until 2009, the music video for the song had never been commercially available, as it had been excluded from Madonna's Video Collection 93:99 compilation released in 1999. It was not until 10 years later that it was included on Madonna's Celebration DVD that the video was finally made available to the public.
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