Surviving family members of the Gucci fashion dynasty have expressed unhappiness with their representation in the new film House of Gucci.
In a statement issued on Monday, the heirs of Aldo Gucci – who ran the fashion house for 33 years until the mid-1980s – said they were aggrieved by the lack of consultation by film-makers, as well as their portrayal as “thugs, ignorant and insensitive to the world around them”.
Ridley Scott’s film stars Al Pacino as Aldo Gucci, Jeremy Irons as his brother Rodolfo, and Adam Driver as his nephew Maurizio, who took over the firm until he was murdered in 1995 by a hitman hired by his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani (played by Lady Gaga).
Based on the 2000 nonfiction book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed, the film, said the Guccis, attributes “a tone and an attitude to the protagonists of the well-known events that never belonged to them”.
The statement continued: “This is extremely painful from a human point of view and an insult to the legacy on which the brand is built today.” » | Catherine Shoard | Monday, November 29, 2021
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