Cis Corman was a casting director who often worked with Martin Scorsese. In the early ’80s, she was casting “The Last Temptation of Christ,” and Madonna was brought in to audition for — what else? — the role of the Virgin Mary.
“She didn’t get the part, but my mother told me I had to meet this woman,” Richard Corman says. “She was an absolute original.” Source: Before she was the ‘Material Girl’ | New York Post
