In “House of Gucci,” she portrays a woman who ordered a hit on her ex-husband. In real life, she refused to meet her.
Lady Gaga tells Brut how she prepared for the role.
Lady Gaga tells Brut how she prepared for the role.
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00:00Father, son, and house of Gucci.
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00:28My performance, I believe, is a performance given by someone
00:32that investigated this murder on their own,
00:35investigated the family business.
00:37I know so many secrets about Gucci that I'll never tell.
00:40I worked on a backstory for Patrizia
00:43where I delved into her life as well as the life of the Gucci's,
00:47and I read that backstory all the time.
00:51So it was like putting information into my body
00:54and building that inner life, building the fabric,
00:57the soul, the cells of the character.
00:59This was my primary source of creating who she was,
01:04meaning from reality and not from opinions.
01:07I didn't want anybody's opinion.
01:09I wanted to rely on myself and trust myself as an actress
01:15to do the work and to become.
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01:21We did not use my real hair for filming,
01:24but I dyed my own hair anyway because I really was having trouble
01:28having the accent without the hair
01:31because it just felt inauthentic to being Italian.
01:35There was a real sense of authenticity
01:38that I was trying to grab onto
01:40with every cell in my body for this character.
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01:50I don't consider myself to be a particularly ethical person,
01:54but I am fair.
01:56I really wanted to get the accent into my body,
01:59and just to explain, to be more specific,
02:02I first started to talk in my accent
02:04like I'm talking to you right now,
02:06meaning I talked as myself
02:08so that I could get used to using the words
02:10and not having it be something that was using me
02:13so that the real me could come through when I was speaking.
02:16Bravo!
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02:24I decided not to meet her
02:26because the impression that I got from watching her interviews
02:30was that she enjoyed being famous,
02:33and I found that there seemed to be an agenda and a strategy
02:39that she was trying to get you to see her.
02:42I'm sure you understand as a writer and a journalist, right,
02:46that sometimes you'll be talking to someone
02:48and it's very clear that they want you to see them
02:51in a particular way.
02:52This is Patrizia.
02:53Patrizia's trying to get you to see her a certain way,
02:56and I didn't want her to try to get me
02:58to portray her in the way she wanted.
03:01I wanted to portray the truth.