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Directed by Ridley Scott, the movie, based on
the book of the same name, features an all-star cast, including
Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek and Jeremy
Irons, in a retelling of the notorious murder case which shocked
Italy and its fashion industry in the 1990s.
Donning an Italian accent, Gaga plays Patrizia Reggiani who
married into the Gucci family in 1972 when she wed heir Maurizio
Gucci. They divorced in 1994.
A year later Maurizio was shot dead by a hit man outside his
Milan office. Reggiani spent 18 years in jail for orchestrating
his murder and was released in 2016.
Asked about reports she had stayed in character for 18 months,
Gaga said on the red carpet: "I really feel in some ways that my
process has been sensationalised into something but I don't like
to lie about my work and my process. So what I will say is this:
I'm a romantic when it comes to art.
"I had a romantic relationship with my character, Patrizia. I
had a romantic relationship with the script and I dove headfirst
into this world because she's nothing like me... I don't know
where 18 months came from. Nine months, yes, but double that, I
don't know."
The role follows Gaga's critically-acclaimed performance in "A
Star is Born", for which she won an Oscar for best original song
"Shallow" and a best actress nomination.
Leto plays Paolo Gucci, Maurizio's cousin, in the movie and is
completely unrecognisable.
"Make-up and hair took about six hours," he told Reuters, adding
he had looked to Gucci's current creative director Alessandro
Michele, among others, for inspiration for his accent.
"When you hear the voice, you can hear Alessandro in there too,"
he said.
"House of Gucci" begins its cinema rollout on Nov. 24.
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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