Adam Driver, Lady Gaga improvised feral noises in wild House of Gucci sex scene
Adam Driver and Lady Gaga brought out the inner animal in one another in House of Gucci, as the former revealed to EW that the pair improvised key elements of their wild sex scene in the heat of the moment.
The sequence comes early in the film at the start of the plot’s central relationship between fashion empire heir Maurizio Gucci (Driver) and his new bride, Patrizia Reggiani (Gaga), a working-class woman who intensely pursues Gucci after meeting him at a party — years before she was convicted for hiring an assassin to shoot him following the disintegration of their marriage, reports Entertainment Weekly.
“[Patrizia] very much uses sex as a tool, and I feel like it kind of physically embodies what’s going on between them; he comes from this not necessarily emotionally vapid, but [his life is] not as passionate, and that’s what she brought,” Driver told us Tuesday night at the Ridley Scott-directed crime-drama’s New York City premiere.
Adam Driver and Lady Gaga sex scene
Preparing to shoot the scene was standard: “We blocked it out as we would any fight or any scene, then we just kind of ran it maybe once or twice, and that was it!” he said, playfully grinning when asked how they landed on the particular brand of animalistic noises that punctuate the sequence.
“We were feeling it, so to speak! Everything I say sounds like a double entendre, but, we winged it!” the 37-year-old Oscar nominee said with a laugh. “I will say also, at that point, we had been shooting for a month, so we felt very comfortable to go where we needed to go.”
“We blocked it out as we would any fight or any scene, then we just kind of ran it maybe once or twice, and that was it!” the “Girls” star told EW, which noted that there were animalistic noises in the steamy sex scene.
“We were feeling it, so to speak! Everything I say sounds like a double entendre, but we winged it,” Driver said. “I will say also, at that point, we had been shooting for a month, so we felt very comfortable to go where we needed to go.”
However, two new House of Gucci clips have been released, giving us a glimpse into Lady Gaga‘s portrayal of Patrizia Reggiani, wife and murderer of Gucci heir Maurizio Gucci, played by Adam Driver.
These snippets show the growing tension between Patrizia and Maurizio as they spar over the Gucci brand and the Gucci family. The first clip shows Maurizio (Driver) examining a pile of knock-off Gucci products, which Patrizia (Gaga) warns is cheapening their luxurious brand, reminding her husband of her own claim to the Gucci name, a status which Maurizio is hesitant to extend.
As reported in Collider, these two clips give us a clear insight into the intrigue of Patrizia Reggiani’s path to integrating herself into the power structure of the Gucci dynasty as she, an outsider with humble beginnings, seeks to take control of the luxury brand. Her ambition will spiral out, causing chaos both within the Gucci family and her own personal life, ultimately leading to the murder of her husband, Maurizio.