Gaga on playing Patrizia (Highlights from Vogue)

[Stephen 30,431]

“It is three years since I started working on it,” she launches in on House of Gucci, “and I will be fully honest and transparent: I lived as her [Reggiani] for a year and a half. And I spoke with an accent for nine months of that.” Off camera, too? “Off camera,” she confirms, solemnly. “I never broke. I stayed with her.”

So you haven’t even met her? I ask Gaga. “You know,” she replies, “I only felt that I could truly do this story justice if I approached it with the eye of a curious woman who was interested in possessing a journalistic spirit so that I could read between the lines of what was happening in the film’s scenes.” She seems keen to ensure she is being crystal clear. “Meaning that nobody was going to tell me who Patrizia Gucci was,” she says, flatly. “Not even Patrizia Gucci.”

“I became fascinated with the journey of this woman.” She spent more than a year poring over newspaper clippings and recordings of Reggiani, although, tellingly, she did not read Sara Gay Forden’s The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed, the 2000 book on which the film is based. “I did not want anything that had an opinion that would colour my thinking in any way.”

When Gucci’s producers settled on a somewhat retro-seeming plan to have the cast deliver their dialogue in English with thick Italian accents, Gaga knew nailing Reggiani’s voice would be key. She worked tirelessly at it. “I started with a specific dialect from Vignola, then I started to work in the higher class way of speaking that would have been more appropriate in places like Milan and Florence,” she explains. “In the movie, you’ll hear that my accent is a little different depending on who I’m speaking to.”

“I wish not to glorify somebody that would commit murder,” she says. “But I do wish to pay respect to women throughout history who became experts at survival, and to the unfortunate consequences of hurt. I hope that women will watch this and remind themselves to think twice about the fact that hurt people hurt people. And it’s dangerous. What happens to somebody,” she asks, “when they’re pushed over the edge?”

With Italy beset by lockdowns, and with paparazzi everywhere, Gaga... says she had gone so deep with the part she began to lose touch with reality. “I had some psychological difficulty at one point towards the end of filming,” she explains, taking care with her words. “I was either in my hotel room, living and speaking as Reggiani, or I was on set, living and speaking as her. I remember I went out into Italy one day with a hat on to take a walk. I hadn’t taken a walk in about two months and I panicked.” She could no longer compute the real world. “I thought I was on a movie set.”

Do you imagine that there will come a time – once the film is out, once you’re beyond the intensity of all this – where you might wish to meet Reggiani, I ask? At the very least, won’t curiosity get the better of you?

There follows a significant pause. “I’m not entirely sure. I think it requires a certain emotional quotient to be an actor,” she says, trying to explain her reticence. It also took her deep into a darkness she is ready to shake off. “The way I felt playing this character by the end, I realised that when you kill someone else, you really kill yourself.”

She goes quiet and seems for a moment to be lost in it all again. Slowly she blinks a few times, bringing herself back to Gaga’s reality, away from Patrizia’s. “Who I care the most for in this process are her children,” she says, carefully, “and I extend to them love and compassion that I’m sure this movie coming out is tremendously difficult or painful for them, potentially. And I wish nothing but peace for their hearts.” Her eyes are again full of worry. Then hope. “I did my very best to play the truth.”

https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/lady-gaga-interview

[Chic 20,830]

Wow, one of her best interviews in a while. Extremely eloquent and lots of interesting information!

[MelbHawker 6,583]

I never knew just how much preparation she did for this role, nor had any concept of how much depth she’s given it. I’m really looking forward to seeing this now.. she’s so committed to her work. I love. 

[Judas Society 3,584]

This article will either be very controversial for her or the GP will understand how she approach this character who is a real person.

Though I understand why she didn't meet Patrizia to pick her brains. Because people have a certain myopia about their own truths. They may want to believe certain truths about themselves to justify the difficult choices they made. I feel that Gaga doesn't want that to influence her take on the character. That being said, there are people who thinks that if you're playing a real life person, you ought to emulate the real life person as closely as you can.

So this is up for debate really.

 

[Levine 23,709]

“I started with a specific dialect from Vignola, then I started to work in the higher class way of speaking that would have been more appropriate in places like Milan and Florence,” she explains. “In the movie, you’ll hear that my accent is a little different depending on who I’m speaking to.”

 

A genius! And I love at the end when she talks about the daughters, I hope that message will arrive to them.

[BradleyCooper 2,118]

Wow that was intense. She really puts her all into her roles.  I cannot wait to see her performance.

[FFXIV WhiteMage 5,982]

She’s a superstar not only in music but also in acting now

 

[Dojo 19,372]

“But I do wish to pay respect to women throughout history who became experts at survival, and to the unfortunate consequences of hurt."

And the message to Patrizia's children, wow! Respect!

[Fish 6,156]

ok wow 

[LittleMonster20 9,858]

She really is just genuinely such a good person. The way she approached all this so carefully and the way she showed compassions and eventual guilt for the kids is just so considerate of her.

[flyaway 15,350]

31 minutes ago, Stephen said:

So you haven’t even met her? I ask Gaga.

“You know,” she replies, “I only felt that I could truly do this story justice if I approached it with the eye of a curious woman who was interested in possessing a journalistic spirit so that I could read between the lines of what was happening in the film’s scenes

A reverse journalistic experience

What a way to dodge a bullet Gaga 

You could have Just said EXCUSE ME NO, she's a criminal and deserves to be in jail. 

 

[Ghost Face 6,236]

[GipJo 2,912]

46 minutes ago, Judas Society said:

This article will either be very controversial for her or the GP will understand how she approach this character who is a real person.

Though I understand why she didn't meet Patrizia to pick her brains. Because people have a certain myopia about their own truths. They may want to believe certain truths about themselves to justify the difficult choices they made. I feel that Gaga doesn't want that to influence her take on the character. That being said, there are people who thinks that if you're playing a real life person, you ought to emulate the real life person as closely as you can.

So this is up for debate really.

 

Emulating the person doesn't mean you have to consult that person's opinion, her approach of gathering information about her from true journalist/reports is more reliable than those from a lying murderer.

[Dojo 19,372]

2 minutes ago, GipJo said:

 is more reliable than those from a lying murderer.

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1 hour ago, Stephen said:

“But I do wish to pay respect to women throughout history who became experts at survival

What Patrizia did wasn't about survival, she is an evil person. Why always paint women as angels who do things against their will or bcs of circumstances. No, women have been capable of wars, or being a leader, dictator, and of killing.