I have no problem with English-speaking actors playing Italians with theatrically emphasized Italian accents. As long as the accents sound more or less the same, fine. But boy, is Lady Gaga “acting” here or what? Lucretia MacEvil meets Lucrezia Borgia.
This is almost SNL-level…broad to the point of the actors essentially saying to the audience “we are acting here…you see that, right?” There’s nothing wrong with this approach either. The idea seems to be that with the apparent exception of Adam Driver‘s Maurizio Gucci, the Gucci family not only saw themselves as grand theatrical types but performed that way on a day-to-day basis.
