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Lady Gagatook measures to protect her mental health while acting out herHouse of Guccicharacter’s dark spiral.
The “Rain on Me” singer, 35, stars in the Ridley Scott film as Patrizia Reggiani, a real-life woman infamous for plotting the assassination of her ex-husband Maurizio Gucci. Gaga, who continues to receive major awards attention for her performance,toldVarietythat she opted to have a psychiatric nurse present during the end of her time filming.
“I had a psychiatric nurse with me towards the end of filming. I sort of felt like I had to. I felt that it was safer for me,” she said.
Gaga, who also played an emotionally draining role in 2018’sA Star Is Born, added of staying in character during the production, “I was the same way forA Star Is Born; I was always Ally. And for this, 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.”
“I brought the darkness with me home because her life was dark,” added Gaga.
Gaga, who is an outspoken proponent of prioritizing one’s mental health, explained toVariety, “It’s okay to ask for help. If you’re feeling like that, ask for help. No matter what.”
“I don’t think that any actor should push themselves to that limit, and I ask myself all the time why I do that,” she added. “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,” she said, “it can be hard to reel it in on your own.”
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Last month, Gaga toldBritishVogue, “I had some psychological difficultyat one point towards the end of filming. I was either in my hotel room, living and speaking as Reggiani, or I was on set, living and speaking as her.”
ShetoldThe New York Timesin November about leaving the role behind after wrapping production.
“To be honest, I was really ready to let go. She’s a tremendously complicated individual and when you’re living in survival mode all the time — and she was always in survival mode — it creates such a sentiment of trauma constantly,” explained Gaga. “When I got on that plane back from Italy, I threw out my cigarettes. I threw out the booze, I landed in L.A. and cleaned my life up because I couldn’t live that way anymore. It was killing me because it was killing her.”
House of Gucciis now in theaters.
source: people.com
