film runs through here and it's always breaking it and it's coming up
this thing was probably used and still used by edison this is based on a book by sarah fordham
the house of gucci it was brought to attention my attention finally up by my wife
who's a producer has done several things not with me so this would be the first thing
i've ever done with janina and she said this is a really interesting story and that was 20 years ago
so in the 20 years we've been trying to get it written where you have the balance of what
actually happened with the personal side of the story which is constantly offset against
the evolution of the business and so it's an interesting thing of
a family history a grand family history almost italian royalty in the fashion industry and which
led to destruction of the family i used to buy my mother little gucci presents every christmas
and so i knew a lot about the gucci evolution as as a as a product as a franchise and so i
didn't have to do much research i mean right too that i lived through everything in the 60s
i was in the wrong country about the 60s i know i bet in the rock i was not in the 60s trust me
so i'd been through it and so the next step is to bring my designers to bear to it
which will be jaunty which is the clothing and then the production designer arthur max where we
can both identify the the places and the time what they might be and of course what the fashion would
be because that becomes very important and i think it's taken quite an important part in the film
i think jante got it really well done and even though we looked at early gucci stuff
and it was actually really impressive the early gucci stuff was very impressive we had some
research material and uh powder looked just like that i said how are you going to do this he said
well many companies said that's good that's the hardest makeup to do to put it on from here to
here where you're doing that and you're going to get creases it is the hardest thing or thing to do
we found a genius in scandinavia who did we able to have this done every morning he was there at
4 30 a.m the four hour makeup then you arrive on the set okay okay let's go and there he was and he
was a completely different person i started to be very curious about stefania uh i think when i saw
a stars born i thought there's more here than her talent a formidable talent as an entertainer
as a singer as a producer and a writer of her own show this is a this is a real engine of creativity
and so i met with and she came to the office and i liked her immediately
and she was fascinated immediately and that's how it began sometimes a singer can also be a
natural actor or actress because that's what they do on stage when they're singing they're so inside
their own words she writes them so she's writing her own play which she then sings so in a funny
kind of way it's not a storm throw less than a storm show away from if you're getting a script
can you just act and not sing and so that became very apparent that she was very superlatively
prepared for every line more than normal in the whole story so she didn't miss a beat on airline
always a lot of things to learn from a phenomenal director actually a world building director
like ridley scott if you haven't seen any of his films before i mean he's got a list uh going from
the first original alien film all the way to gladiator onto something more recent
like prometheus which uh is one of my favorite of his films too and going on over even to you know
um dramas like uh matchstick men and stuff like that the man has done a lot of work uh out there
and many different facets of genres in filmmaking so he is a great director to learn from and learn
how to world build just like him he's a man that i look into a lot as far as like all his work i've
watched all of the behind the scenes of gladiator and those three to almost four hours behind the
scenes for prometheus which i highly recommend checking those uh type of things out because
uh the man uh can storyboard for himself and do a bunch of other things and paint a whole world for
you um just before you even walk on set or even call action so let me know let me know down in
the comments down below uh your favorite a ridley scott film and are you excited about seeing house
of gucci like i am it's phenomenal to see him do movies like this about history and historical
events and stuff like that even in pop culture so let me know down in the comments down below
your thoughts of this film and any other ridley scott film and i'll see you here next time later