![]() ![]() For nine full months she stayed in character, trying to live and breathe as Reggiani and, crucially, speaking as her, a process she has said caused her to lose touch with reality somewhere along the way.įew other actors go to these lengths, but plenty insist on maintaining their accent on set and in between takes. ![]() The preparation required can be daunting: just ask Lady Gaga, who was inspired by her Italian ancestry to take on the role of Patrizia Reggiani in the first place. Streep’s inflections rarely suggest a generic stab at a country, though – they’re compellingly specific, with the eccentricities each of these women demanded. Meryl Streep as Mrs Thatcher in 2012's The Iron Lady. Their woeful attempts at “posh British” have gone down in film-making lore, with director Francis Ford Coppola admitting, in an interview with US magazine Entertainment Weekly in 2015, that he knew at the time of filming that Reeves was off-the-mark but didn’t criticise him because the actor was trying so hard and because he liked him so much “personally”. Gary Oldman’s Transylvanian count, with his gooey outbursts, sonorous cackles and silky drawl, gets top marks by far Anthony Hopkins barks “Ja!” a lot as Van Helsing and at least winds up at the fun end of overripe.īut, heavens above, Winona and Keanu. If it’s Gucci-esque inconsistency you’re after, look no further than the stars of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), trotting out their individual stylings as if no one else mattered. There’s nothing like a few strangled vowel sounds to throw us out of a film’s whole finale (hello, Quentin Tarantino’s “Australian” miner in Django Unchained) or make declarations of puppy love fall embarrassingly flat (Natalie Portman’s squawking, English-adjacent Padmé in the Star Wars prequels). * Maurizio Gucci's ex Patrizia Reggiani slams Lady Gaga over House of Gucci role ![]() ![]() * The twisted true story behind House of Gucci: See the cast vs. * I witnessed the real-life drama behind the House of Gucci film ![]()
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