Lady Gaga covers both British Vogue and Vogue Italia for their December issue, as the singer rides the hype train for her forthcoming drama film, ‘House of Gucci.’
The big-screen adaptation will be released on November 26 in theaters all around the world, and it is already generating Oscar hype.
Gaga plays Patrizia Reggiani, Gucci’s ex-wife who was convicted of orchestrating his death following an affair, in the film directed by Ridley Scott.
Mother Monster discussed her experience shooting the film, having to transform into her character, and other topics for her magazine cover.
See below for the Steven Meisel-shot pictures and quotes.
Sharing On Potraying 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.”
Being Embodied With 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 Her Strategy To Play The Role:
“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.”
Speaking On Her Goal For The Film:
“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.”
[Photo Credit: Vogue / Steven Meisel]
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