:quality(75)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elcomercio/6Y6FN3HLXNHPHDJCC76VA7YQEU.jpg "Lady Gaga arrived in Rome and settled in a luxurious Attic to begin filming")
The artist Lady Gaga has landed in Rome to begin filming “Gucci”, the next Ridley Scott film, in which she will play Patrizia Reggiani, the “black widow” of Maurizio Gucci, head of the mythical fashion house that she ordered assassinated in 1995 .
The singer, nominated for an Oscar in her debut as the lead in the hit “A Star is born” (2018), has been seen on the streets of the capital with a leopard dress, sunglasses, a black mask and brown hair. not blonde, according to local media.
Gaga, a New Yorker of Italian origins as her name proves, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, will live in Italy for at least the next month to make the film about the Gucci tragedy.
The Roman newspaper “Il Messaggero” assures that she has refused to reside in a hotel because she fears the coronavirus and has finally chosen to rent a luxurious penthouse between the Imperial Forums and the picturesque Monti neighborhood of the capital.
After “A star is born” by Bradley Cooper, with which he won the Oscar for the best original song, “Shallow”, this will be the second leading role in the artist’s cinema, with cameos in other films such as “Machete Kills” (2013) and in the television series “American Horror Story”.
On this occasion, Gaga will be under the command of Ridley Scott to give life on the big screen to Patrizia Reggiani, convicted of ordering the murder of her ex-husband Maurizio Gucci, shot by a hitman on March 27, 1995 in Milan (north).
The “black widow” spent eighteen years in the San Vittore prison in Milan, which she referred to as “Victor’s residence” and from which she never wanted to leave, although she was released in 2017, as she herself admitted in a recent documentary about his story.
Scott’s film about the fashion dynasty will feature a script by Roberto Bentivegna and will be based on the book “The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamor, and Greed” by Sara Gay Forden.
The director has chosen a stellar cast for this new film that takes him back to Rome, after “All the money in the world” (All the money in the world, 2017) and with Gaga will perform figures of the stature of Jeremy Irons, Al Pacino, Adam Driver and Jared Leto.
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Filming will take place between Rome, Florence, Milan and Lake Como, the quintessential place of Italian luxury.