Vulture: Gaga wins Best Actress in a Promoting Role

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No One Does a Press Tour Quite Like Lady Gaga

When Lady Gaga stars in a movie, everyoneknows about it. And what happens onscreen is only half the fun. A Lady Gaga press tour has become one of Hollywood’s most enthralling, chaotic, and (occasionally) excruciating spectacles.
 

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If there were an Oscar for Best Actress in a Promoting Role, Gaga would have surely won for A Star Is Born in 2019. On the awards-season campaign trail, she and Bradley Cooper reignited the “showmance” as a promotion tool. (They walked so Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain could run.) No one in recent history has shown more finesse than after Gaga single-handedly turned “There can be 100 people in a room and 99 of them don’t believe in you, but all it takes is one!” into a meme and pop-cultural proverb.

Now we’re witnessing the return of the Gaga press tour in all its glory. Ms. Germanotta is on the Oscar hunt once again for her portrayal of Patrizia Reggiani in Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci. Reggiani, a glamorous Italian socialite, was convicted of arranging the murder of her former husband, Maurizio Gucci, played by Adam Driver, in 1995. Gaga’s awards-season press has centered on her increasingly elaborate Method acting stories. The promo tour has been more entertaining than the film—and seeing as HoG was described as “a glossy, glorious mess” and a “titillating, ridiculous, and utterly engrossing soap opera,” that’s really saying something.

Lady Gaga has always been an outlandish performer, and clearly an unforgettable interview is part of her act. She honed this art while promoting her music, dropping a different detail in every interview, from the provocative to the outright bizarre. (Who can forget Fame Monster–era Gaga explaining to a bewildered Barbara Walters what “bluffin’ with my muffin” meant?) In an era where movie promos in particular can feel staged, stale, and oddly manipulative, standing out without being annoying isn’t easy—just ask Will and Jada Pinkett Smith

Lady Gaga has always been an outlandish performer, and clearly an unforgettable interview is part of her act. She honed this art while promoting her music, dropping a different detail in every interview, from the provocative to the outright bizarre. (Who can forget Fame Monster–era Gaga explaining to a bewildered Barbara Walters what “bluffin’ with my muffin” meant?) In an era where movie promos in particular can feel staged, stale, and oddly manipulative, standing out without being annoying isn’t easy—just ask Will and Jada Pinkett Smith.
Are her farcical stories even true? Maybe not. But do we even care? Not really. Because when Gaga embarks on a press tour, the only certainty is that we’re about to be entertained.

When she “investigated” the insurrection

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When Gaga spent the day working as a barista at Starbucks, it launched a million memes because it’s very hard to imagine her doing a “normal” job. “Stef” (as she’d likely be known) would probably stand by the office photocopier in her favorite sky-high stripper heels and wear the meat dress to “dress-down Fridays.” But what was Gaga’s plan B if she hadn’t become the triple threat she is today?

When she kicked off the HoG press tour, she revealed that very thing. “I would have been a combat journalist. That was one of my dreams,” she told British Vogue. “When I was at the Capitol, the day before the inauguration, I remember walking around and looking for evidence of the insurrection.” New January 6th Select Committee chair just dropped!

If she can save pop music, she can save democracy. Someone needs to tell Nancy Pelosi it’s not too late to let L. Gaga (D-NY)—a fellow Italian girl and RuPaul’s Drag Race guest judge alumna—take over the investigation. Pulitzer Prize era, incoming!

When she got lost in the art (literally)
 

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Gaga takes the craft of acting very seriously, perhaps even more so than her musical performances — and if you’ve watched the seven-minute video for “Born This Way,’’ in which Mother Monster gives birth in space, or saw her arrive at the Grammys in an egg she’d been living in for three days — you’ll know that’s a high bar.

In HoG, Gaga has made no secret of the fact that Method acting was the key to portraying scorned Italian socialite Reggiani. She told British Vogueshe spoke with an “Italian” accent for nine months and stayed in character for a year and a half. That’s, like, half a pandemic? (The new measurement of time.)

“It’s a becoming,” Gaga said. “I remember when we started filming, I knew I had become — and I knew that the greater challenge was going to be unbecoming.” Okay then.

By the end of the film, Gaga said she had “psychological difficulty” and even had a nurse on set, which sounds … a little concerning? After living and speaking as Reggiani on and off set, she ended up forgetting where she was: “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 … I thought I was on a movie set.” Thank goodness for Google Maps!

When she wrote a book

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When she was “drinking” on the job
 

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When she lived out every gay man’s teen fantasy
 

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It wouldn’t be a Gaga press tour if she didn’t give the gays everything they want. But when she teamed up with everyone’s former teenage fantasy — the notoriously shower-shy Jake Gyllenhaal — for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Gaga really became the human embodiment of that “Ally” meme. Resurrect the billboard!

Here, Gaga revealed herself to be a true stan. “I don’t want to lie and tell you I haven’t seen it so many times,” she told Gyllenhaal. “In the world of music, but in fashion as well, Donnie Darko, it’s religion. It really is. And if you know your ****, you know Donnie Darko.”

In the accompanying photos, the pair do have the distinct aura of “Hey, we saw you from across the bar and we’re really digging your vibe” around them. And at the photo shoot, Gaga was overheard saying, “Mommy and Daddy love each other,” and telling him, “Good job, honey.”

I think I need to lie down.

When she thought she killed someone

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When she became Lady of the Flies

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Last year, Patrizia Reggiani said she was “annoyed” about Lady Gaga playing her in the movie, partly because Gaga hadn’t made an effort to get in touch with her beforehand. After famously sending an assassin after her former husband, could it be possible that Reggiani sought a far less extreme form of revenge on a fellow Italian girl?

Gaga seems to think so. In perhaps her most bizarre press-tour moment (so far), she told W magazine that, on the last day of filming, while she was still in character, a large swarm of flies began to follow her around. “I knew I had to say goodbye to Patrizia. Large swarms of flies kept following me around, and I truly began to believe that she had sent them. I was ready to let her go.”

Reggiani hasn’t confirmed or denied that she sent the swarm, but maybe Gaga just needed to take a shower? Is this somehow Jake Gyllenhaal’s fault?

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We love ha again 

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That picture they chose is giving me

 

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Reading all of the sh*t she pulled on this press tour is just 

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Gaga seems to think so. In perhaps her most bizarre press-tour moment (so far), she told W magazine that, on the last day of filming, while she was still in character, a large swarm of flies began to follow her around. “I knew I had to say goodbye to Patrizia. Large swarms of flies kept following me around, and I truly began to believe that she had sent them. I was ready to let her go.” 

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The flies comment is still the best 

time to pop a 911 gurl

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I love her.  She's always camera-ready, she will always give you a show, and she will always be a great guest for any journalist/ TV host.  

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She literally is camp it’s amazing 

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everyone say "thank you, gaga!" for making hollywood camp, glamorous and entertaining again!  

 

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12 minutes ago, mamo said:

everyone say "thank you, gaga!" for making hollywood camp, glamorous and entertaining again!  

 

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When she said "looking for evidence of the insurrection," I think she just meant, like, looking for the broken windows that hadn't been fixed yet (which was a thing -- they intentionally left some unfixed for a while). That sort of thing. Just to see it, you know (not "investigate").

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Glad this article is recognizing the truth, that Gaga has been promoting her music this exact way the whole time. This is who she is!

I think it's kinda precious that the film world is so shook by it  Love that for them!

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Lady of the Flies 

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23 minutes ago, Nemo said:

When she said "looking for evidence of the insurrection," I think she just meant, like, looking for the broken windows that hadn't been fixed yet (which was a thing -- they intentionally left some unfixed for a while). That sort of thing. Just to see it, you know (not "investigate").

We know, but interpreting it as investigation is more fun 

Like.... this image alone is so hilarious 

 

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