During a post-screening Q&A in Westwood, the Oscar winner opened up on how she prepared to play the infamous Patrizia Reggiani.
Gaga added that she didn’t want anyone to tell her who Patrizia was “other than myself as well as my castmembers and my director,” as she was joined on the panel by Scott, Driver and Jared Leto.
Many of Gaga’s comments centered on how she wanted to honor her Italian legacy by not portraying Reggiani as a “caricature,” by using research to supplement her own family history, as well as input from legendary crooner and close friend Tony Bennett. “After I saw the film, I noticed the nuance. … [Patrizia] wants to belong and she does not. And, in a lot of ways, I relate to that, so I brought that part of myself to the character and I also found a way to assimilate backward — back from an Italian American to an Italian who wanted to survive, and no matter how much she tried to survive, she simply could not. And she failed,” noted Gaga, who also added that she modeled her accent on the northern part of the country .
As for Bennett, Gaga said he’s given a thumbs-down to films by a certain director. “He famously talks about his distaste for Marty Scorsese’s films,” she said as she touched the arm of Scott. “How much he dislikes the way that Italians are portrayed in crime. Tony does not fully talk to me about this right now [because of] the state that he’s in [with Alzheimer’s], which is probably best for me, but I’ve tried to explain it to him.
No word on whether anybody has explained this to Scorsese, as the legendary auteur recorded a special 95th birthday greeting for Bennett that was posted to his Twitter account in August.Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga perform live at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on Aug. 5, 2021.A version of this story first appeared in the Nov. 10 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
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