Lady Gaga recently shared her intentions for wanting to play House of Gucci character Patrizia Reggiani as a “real person” and “not a caricature.”
The star addressed her motivation for the House of Gucci role while in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
There she was quoted saying, “I knew I was about to play a murderer. I also knew how Tony feels about Italians being represented in film in terms of crime. I wanted to make a real person out of Patrizia, not a caricature.”
“I felt the best way to honour Maurizio and Italians was for my performance to be authentic, from the perspective of a woman. Not an Italian-American woman, but an Italian woman.”
She also wore her heart on her sleeve and admitted, “Choosing to work in a film that's set in Italy is where my heart lies.”
“When I went over to film this year, every day I was able to plant my feet on the ground and know that I was in a place where my family lived before coming here and working hard so I could have a better life.”