Ex-hubby Ritchie praises Madonna`s acting skills

London: British filmmaker Guy Ritchie believes that ex-wife, pop superstar Madonna`s acting skills have been unfairly written off.

Ritchie, who divorced the `4 Minutes` singer after nearly eight years of marriage in 2008, claims her acting talents are unfairly written off because people struggle to imagine her as anything other than a pop superstar, a news daily reported. "If you ask me, I think she`s all right. I think she`s perfectly good. I just don`t think people can get her persona out of the way," Ritchie said. Ritchie directed Madonna in the straight-to-DVD movie `Swept Away` in 2002, and despite the movie being blasted by critics, he insisted that he is proud of the work they did together. "The whole thing is supposed to be ironic. It`s about a man that hits a woman. If you ask me, everything about it was rather interesting, but it was such a feral relationship between a man and woman and you just can`t get away with that in contemporary society." Despite public perception of Madonna, she won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Eva Peron in `Evita`. PTI