House Of Gucci star Lady Gaga has said she spent nine months living with an Italian accent because she wanted to speak from a place that was "visceral" and "true".
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The actress and singer, 35, plays Patrizia Reggiani in Sir Ridley Scott's crime drama, a socialite who had her fashion dynasty heir husband Maurizio Gucci murdered in a case that gripped Italy.
Gaga, who is of Italian descent and whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, revealed the lengths she went to when taking on the character.
The singer and actor said although she felt her creative process has been "sensationalised" by reports, she had been unable to lie about the extent of her method.
"I am a romantic when it comes to art. I had a romantic relationship with my character Patrizia," she told the PA news agency.
"I had a romantic relationship with the script and I dove headfirst into this world because she is nothing like me.
"An inherently wide-eyed person that is looking to transgress society financially is something that I don't identity with. So I spent a lot of time living my life looking for where money and value lie.
"Then there is the accent. Then there is the ability to talk as myself, meaning as Stefani, with the accent, so that I knew that I could speak from a place that was visceral, that was true.
"Then there is this script which you have to analyse until you are dead behind the eyes. For me, I would stop at nothing to take the helm of my character."
In House Of Gucci, her first film role since her Oscar-nominated turn in 2018's A Star Is Born, Gaga stars alongside Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons and Salma Hayek.
Reggiani, a socialite and high fashion personality, was convicted of orchestrating the 1995 assassination of Maurizio, the grandson of Gucci's founder
In an attempt to get the verdict overturned, her two daughters argued a brain tumour had affected her behaviour.
She was eventually freed in 2016.
House Of Gucci will arrive in Australian cinemas on January 1, 2022.
Australian Associated Press
