You get to know this person, this creation and it’s bittersweet and kind of breaks my heart.
I felt it was very hard to say goodbye to this character. He’s warm, gracious and funny, no ego and there is a lot to learn there, I fell in love with this character, Paolo Gucci. “Al Pacino is an actor who changed the way things were done, his choices and commitment to his work is legendary and the opportunity to work with someone like that is phenomenal. “Just to be included in that thought is flattering,” Leto said. ‘House Of Gucci’ Unveils Character Posters Of Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino And More – Photo Gallery Both were loveably hapless, and bitter when passed over for the top job as their father’s successor. Leto’s Paolo, in scenes with Pacino as his father Aldo, is a bit reminiscent of Pacino’s scenes with John Cazale as Fredo Corleone in The Godfather films. And just when you think he is going to start this new life, someone takes it from him.” Curious, open minded, fully realized at the end of his life. He doesn’t really become himself until he loses the company and then he goes back to who he was, at the start. He is married to someone who has no problem claiming the throne. He was never empowered by his father to be this person, to claim what is his. “Out of happenstance, suddenly you are the person who is in charge and suddenly the stakes are different.
He’s almost as intelligent at the beginning, before you have that piece of cake and end up wanting the whole thing.” Driver felt Maurizio was left with 50% of Gucci when his father passed, but his father never really trained his son to run such a large company. That was what was so exciting about playing the character. “He wouldn’t have changed if she hadn’t empowered him to make him believe that he belonged at the table. “Her involvement was paramount,” Driver said. ‘House Of Gucci’ Trailer: First Look At Glitzy Crime Drama Starring Lady Gaga & Adam Driver Adam Driver and Lady Gaga in ‘House of Gucci’ MGMĭriver, who plays the murder victim was asked about his evolution from an idealistic wannabe lawyer who could do good to a materialist who spent lavishly and strained the coffers of the company, was asked how much Patrizia was as the catalyst for his change. She said she wrote an 80-page diary-style treatise on who Patrizia was and how she manipulated members of the family to raise Maurizio and by extension, herself. If you watch enough interviews with someone, you become in tune with their emotional quotient. I did a lot of intensive almost journalistic type work, where I read mostly exposition about her, watched every single clip of every interview she gave post the murder, for her mannerisms and to be attuned to when she was lying and telling the truth.
This was how she became famous to the world. Leto plays Paolo, the son of Rodolfo’s brother Aldo (Al Pacino), who fancies himself a fashion designer and potential successor but whose ideas and manner embarrasses the family.Īsked about her character’s evolution from being called Elizabeth Taylor to the Black Widow by the Italian press during the murder trial, Lady Gaga said, “the great challenge in building this character is there is not a lot of information about Patrizia Gucci before the death of Maurzio Gucci. Played by Driver, Maurizio is spurred on by his wife to become everything he resented. In her second studio feature starring role, Lady Gaga plays Patrizia, an ambitious Elizabeth Taylor lookalike who falls hard for Maurizio, and marries him even though the scion was disinherited from his father Rodolfo (Jeremy Irons) because the young man wants to be an idealistic lawyer and finds a woman his father feels is below his station. Ridley Scott Won’t Let Age Or Pandemic Slow A Storytelling Appetite That Brought ‘House of Gucci’ & ‘The Last Duel ’ Napoleon & More ‘Gladiator’ Up Next To me it is so extreme, it is almost operatic in its extremes, the way it comes down.”
That is exactly what happens here, this is a modern Medici story in a funny kind of way. The Medici and the Borgias, a group of family that never saw eye to eye and were in a constant state of disparate agenda. Scott, who covered the callous behavior of the super rich in All the Money in the World, said the inspiration was “not dissimilar to two infamous, or famous artists families in Italy in the 14th and 15th century. Contenders Los Angeles: Complete Panel Coverage