Movie hits: Lady Gaga, Nicole Kidman talk about the real female roles they play
Recently, two current Oscar hits Lady Gaga and Nicole Kidman attended press conferences on the movies "House of Gucci" and "Being the Ricardos" starring them. In both films, the characters they play are real people, and both face the breakdown of marriages and women's struggles in the workplace. Both imitated the prototype's conversation with the help of an accent trainer, and their excellent performances also gave them acclaim. Both films were released to the public in December.
Released in theaters on the 10th of January and coming to Amazon on January 21, Ricciardo is a biopic about Hollywood actress Lucille Ball about the marital and career setbacks That Lucille and her husband, Desi Arnaz, encountered while starring in the 1950s sitcom Ilove Lucy. Lucille Bauer, played by the well-known Australian actress Nicole Kidman, loves her husband very much, although she has an independent personality and an opinion, she still chooses to take her husband as the core in her career and life. She constantly had to compete with male writers, producers and executives on set for the right to speak, but was often overlooked and had to use her husband's help to realize her ideas. For example, her opinions about a play are often not taken into account simply because she is female. However, Lucille Bauer decided to divorce her husband after discovering that her husband, Daisy, had cheated on her.
Nicole Kidman said at an online news conference that she participated in the film out of a high degree of trust in writer and director Aaron Sorkin, and that the script was so brilliantly written that she agreed without hesitation. But then she realized that she faced a big challenge, because Lucille Ball is also a well-known actress who is loved by American audiences, and she was hesitant to accurately interpret her and deserve this role. She then spent two months preparing the script and watched a lot of Lucille Ball's performances and interviews, imitating her look and voice. Kidman said: "I have two voices in the film, one is Lucille Ball herself, which is more low, and the other is her role in 'I Love Lucy', the tone is very high, and the two need to show a clear difference. ”
Nicole Kidman said that during the filming, she deliberately did not look in the mirror all the time, wondering whether her appearance was the same as the prototype, but paid more attention to her own interpretation and accurate presentation of the script. In response, Kidman responded that she didn't look like Lucille Ball: "I'm not trying to completely copy her, nor do I want to reinterpret 'I Love Lucy'," but we want to see what Lucille Ball experienced during that period and experienced all the injustices she encountered as a Hollywood actress in the 50s. ”
The film mentions many times that in the social environment of serious male power at that time, the creation of Hollywood scripts was controlled by a male-dominated team, and even tv dramas could not appear female pregnant. All of Lucille Bauer's opinions need to be conveyed through her husband, and if she expresses them directly, she will be ignored by other male executives who think she does not respect him. At the same time, as a middle-aged woman, she was also affected by the role crisis, and she could not find a large film to be willing to use her, and finally could only choose to act in sitcoms. Now that times have changed and Hollywood has changed a lot, Nicole Kidman said she is lucky to find roles that suit her in middle age, and even female producers and screenwriters continue to write roles for women of different ages. Kidman believes that this film is a review and examination of the past Hollywood through the experience of Lucille Ball, making people realize how difficult the road to women's equal rights is.
Meanwhile, Kidman's biggest competitor this year is Lady Gaga, who starred in fashionable "Black Widow" Patrizia Reggiani in "Gucci Family." Patricia sent killers to shoot her husband, Maurizio Gucci, in 1995. The motive for the murder was also because her husband cheated and drove her out of the Gucci family, making it impossible for her to realize her career ambitions. Lady Gaga also received long-term language training for the film, imitating the italian accent of the prototype and watching many interviews with the prototype. Gaga said: "I don't want to read books about her because they have preconceived notions, I mainly study her own videos and her family background, and write these down as memos to review every day, so that I can always remember her origins." ”
Gaga believes that Patricia Regani really loved her husband in the early days and did not marry him for money from the beginning, she said: "When Patricia married Maurizio, the latter had not yet inherited the Gucci family property, and was even expelled from the family by his father, and was a poor boy, but after sharing the hardships, Maurizio was gradually trained by Patricia to become a businessman and returned to the family business, and then Patricia revealed her ambitions in the fashion industry. The film also specifically shows her trying to make various proposals at the meeting to save the Gucci family's business, and there are many bold ideas, but they are blocked by her husband and her husband's uncle, thinking that she is an outsider and has no voice. In order to gain more decision-making power, she began to carefully provoke the relationship between the family members.
Gaga said at an online news conference: "I specifically studied the habits of animals for this purpose, and found that Patricia started as a docile kitten, gradually became a cunning fox, and finally became a cruel cheetah because she lost her husband's love and marriage. She also said that the role attracted her to this series of transformations, hoping that the audience could see a complex female image and the reasons behind her transformation, rather than simply defining her as a gold worshipper as written in the news.
The two actresses play the real female figures of the past era who fought for the right to speak and marriage, and when love, marriage and career disappointed them, it is also the time when these women awaken. Although the two character archetypes make different choices, they do not choose patience and compromise. There are many strong female characters in this awards season, who have to become stronger in order to protect themselves and survive in a world of the weak.