I can't remember if it was on the DVD or even the laserdisc (yes, I had a laserdisc player), but in an audio commentary or possibly an interview, Parker said the Lament (and the whole scene) was indeed sung live. The gist of his comment was that Madonna and Jonathan Pryce did such beautiful work in the scene and it was such a different level of intensity than what had been sung in the studio, he felt he had to use the live version.
I have a significantly vaguer memory of a magazine article where Madonna discussed shooting the Lament scene and thinking of her mother, who died when she was a child, and the unborn daughter she was carrying, and how the connection caused the emotion of the scene to hit her much harder. |
