Lady Gaga glows on the December issue of both British Vogue and Vogue Italia.
Armed with the momentum of her chart-topping album ‘Chromatica’ and critically acclaimed ‘Love For Sale’ LP with Tony Bennett, Mother Monster is strutting ahead with full gusto to the release of ‘House of Gucci.’
The big screen affair hits theaters worldwide on November 26 and is already drumming up Oscar buzz.
Directed by Ridley Scott, the film sees Gaga play Patrizia Reggiani: the ex-wife of Gucci who was convicted of orchestrating his hit after he had an affair.
Prior to its premiere, the Academy Award-winning star posed it up in the Steven Meisel lensed shoot and also opened up in earnest about transforming into Reggiani for the movie.
Pics and quotes below…
On Playing Patrizia Reggiani:
“It is three years since I started working on it 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. I never broke. I stayed with her.”
On Embodying The Character:
“It was nearly impossible for me to speak in the accent as a blonde I instantly had to dye my hair, and I started to live in a way whereby anything that I looked at, anything that I touched, I started to take notice of where and when I could see money. I started to take photographs as well. I have no evidence that Patrizia was a photographer, but I thought as an exercise, and finding her interests in life, that I would become a photographer, so I took my point-and-shoot camera everywhere that I went. I noticed that Patrizia loved beautiful things. If something wasn’t beautiful, I deleted it.”
On The Critique From The Person She’s Playing:
“You know, 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. Meaning that nobody was going to tell me who Patrizia Gucci was. Not even Patrizia Gucci.”
On Adopting An Italian Accent In The Film:
“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. In the movie, you’ll hear that my accent is a little different depending on who I’m speaking to.”
On Her Ultimate Goal With ‘House of Gucci’:
“It was the experience of a lifetime making this film because every minute of every day I thought of my ancestors in Italy, and what they had to do so that I could have a better life. I just wanted to make them proud, which is why I made the decision to make the performance about a real woman and not about the idea of a bad woman.”
