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Lady Gaga may be receiving rave reviews for her portrayal of Patrizia Reggiani in Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci, but the high praise seems to have come at a cost. According to a new interview with Variety, the 35-year-old singer and actress was so committed to her role of the Black Widow, it actually started to affect her mental health – so much so, she had to seek the help of a psychiatric nurse, who she even brought onto the movie’s set! Wow!
“I had a psychiatric nurse with me towards the end of filming,” the Oscar-winner told the publication. “I sort of felt like I had to. I felt that it was safer for me. That’s because I was always Patrizia. I always spoke in my accent. And even if I was speaking about things that weren’t related to the movie — I wasn’t pretending that Maurizio was waiting for me downstairs — I was still living my life. I just lived it as her.”
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We aren’t surprised to hear this, as she previously confessed that she transformed herself into Reggiani for many months before they even started filming, and even spoke in an Italian accent when the cameras stopped rolling. For her cover interview for the December issue of British Vogue, Gaga said: “It is three years since I started working on it, and I will be fully honest and transparent. I lived as Reggiani for a year and a half. And I spoke with an accent for nine months of that. Off camera. I never broke. I stayed with her.”
And the singer known to her fans as Mother Monster has once again spoken about how Reggiani remained with her – which wasn’t easy! “I brought the darkness with me home because her life was dark,” she told Variety, adding that she is making this heart-breaking confession not for further praise, but because she thinks there’s a fine line between what actors should and shouldn’t do for a role, and in hindsight, she admits that she may have gone a bit too far!
"I don’t think that any actor should push themselves to that limit," the A Star is Born actress continued. "And I ask myself all the time why I do that. I’ve done some pretty extreme art pieces throughout my career — the things I’ve put my body through, my mind. It’s like a walnut of sadness in my stomach as I say this to you. I don’t know why I’m like that. I think that the best answer I could give you is I have a sort of romantic relationship with suffering for your art that I developed as a young girl, and it just sometimes goes too far. And when it does go too far, it can be hard to reel it in on your own."
Let's hope that Gaga thinks the struggle has been worth it, as she has just won the Best Actress award at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, and has also been nominated for a Golden Globe, a Critics Choice Award, and a Satellite Award for her role!
