The heirs to the Gucci style home aren’t pleased with the best way their household was portrayed in Home of Gucci. The household of former Gucci chairman Aldo Gucci hinted Monday at attainable authorized motion towards Ridley Scott’s new movie, saying the film depicted the household as a bunch of “thugs.”
“That is extraordinarily painful from a human perspective and an insult to the legacy on which the model is constructed right this moment,” the household mentioned in a press release posted to ANSA, an Italian information web site, and translated by Selection.
The movie stars Girl Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani, an Italian socialite who orchestrated a murder-for-hire scheme to kill her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci, performed by Adam Driver. The actual-life Reggiani spent 18 years in jail.
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In the course of the movie’s press blitz, the heirs took umbrage with the movie, saying their household was portrayed “as thugs, ignorant and insensitive to the world round them.”
The manufacturing “didn’t trouble to seek the advice of the heirs,” the household says, blasting the producers for permitting “a tone and an perspective to the protagonists of the well-known occasions that by no means belonged to them.”
Girl Gaga, Jared Leto and Adam Driver on the set of “Home of Gucci” on April 8, 2021 in Rome, Italy.
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“Though the work claims to need to inform the ‘true story’ of the household, the fears raised by the trailers and interviews launched to this point, are confirmed. The movie carries a story that’s removed from correct,” the assertion reads.
It’s not simply the movie’s producers which can be taking warmth from the Gucci household. Gaga was additionally referred to as out for her portrayal of Reggiani as “a sufferer,” which included statements she made about her character throughout interviews for the movie’s promotion.
In an earlier interview, Gaga mentioned, “There was lots that was within the media that was sensationalized about how she was this gold-digger and the way she killed for greed and cash. I imagine it was love. And I imagine it was survival.”
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Monday’s assertion mentioned the household discovered it “mystifying” {that a} lady convicted of orchestrating the homicide of her ex-husband could be portrayed as “a sufferer attempting to outlive in a male company tradition.” The assertion says that they Gucci enterprise has all the time been “inclusive” and factors out that through the Eighties — the period during which the film is ready — ladies had been in lots of Gucci’s high positions, together with the president of Gucci America and the pinnacle of world public relations and communication.
Scott dismissed criticism from relations in April, after they accused him of “stealing the identification of a household to make a revenue.”
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“I don’t have interaction with that,” the director advised BBC Radio. “It’s a must to keep in mind that one Gucci was murdered and one other went to jail for tax evasion, so you’ll be able to’t be speaking to me about making a revenue. As quickly as you do that you simply develop into a part of the general public area.”
Though no authorized motion has been taken towards the movie to this point, the assertion concluded that “the members of the Gucci household reserve the precise to take motion to guard the identify, picture and dignity of themselves and their family members.”
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