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House of Gucci Soundtrack Out Now

Ridley Scott’s new film, House of Gucci starring Lady Gaga had audiences leaving the theatre eager to listen to the soundtrack. 
Finally, House Of Gucci (Music taken from the Motion Picture) has been released on streaming platforms. The compilation soundtrack features songs from George Michael, Donna Summer, Pavarotti, and many more. It also features the “House of Gucci Score Suite” by Harry Gregson-Williams. A CD edition of the soundtrack is expected to be released on February 25, 2022.
The full tracklist is as follows:
1. Faith – George Michael 
2. La Ragazza Col Maglione – Pino Donaggio 
3. On the Radio – Donna Summer 
4. Anna (Ana) – Miguel Bosé 
5. Love To Love You Baby – Donna Summer 
6. Sono bugiarda (I’m A Believer) – Caterina Caselli 
7. Verdi: Libiamo ne’lieti calici (Brindisi) from La Traviata – Luciano Pavarotti, Dame Joan Sutherland, The London Opera Chorus, The National Philharmonic Orchestra/Richard Bonynge 
8. Una Notte Speciale – Alice 
9. Ritonerai – Bruno Lauzi 
10. Here Comes the Rain Again – Eurythmics, Annie Lennox David Stewart 
11. I Feel Love – Donna Summer 
12. Blue Monday – New Order 
13. Paid in Full (The Coldcut Remix) – Eric B. & Rakim 
14. A Fifth Of Beethoven – Walter Murphy 
15. Heart of Glass – Blondie 
16. Ashes to Ashes – David Bowie 
17. How Gee – Black Machine 
18. House of Gucci Score Suite – Harry Gregson-Williams
Check out the soundtrack on Spotify or Apple Music. 
Pre-order your CD copy here.
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Lady Gaga Talks “House Of Gucci” in New YouTube Interviews

Lady Gaga sat down for an interview with Hollywood YouTube channels Jake's Takes, Tara Hitchcock, Paul’s Trip to the Movies and Kevin McCarthy to discuss her role in House of Gucci and the impact it had on her.
The interviews addressed Gaga's life and how acting has influenced her career. She also reflected on her role as Patrizia Reggiani, her artistry, and what her legacy means to her. On her own impact, she stated, "...I don't think about myself as a brand, I think about myself as a person, as a human being, and an artist."
She also mentioned the impact that the costuming for House of Gucci, designed by Janty Yates, had on her characterization, arguing "...the fashion should be something that is truly a part of the character," and that, "[she] only wore things [Patrizia] wore and in the way she would have styled them."
When asked about what period of her career she would want made into a film, she revealed that her manager, Bobby Campbell, initiated the documentary Five Foot Two, and that she had nothing to do with its conception: "I trusted him to make something that was powerful because I believe in his ability to support women and make art..."
Watch the interviews below.
 
 
 
 
 
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Lady Gaga Talks “House of Gucci” With NPR

Lady Gaga gave an interview for NPR, talking about her experience with House of Gucci.
 
Gaga responds to criticism of her performance in House of Gucci, and talks how she prepared for the role spending months studying Reggiani for director Ridley Scott's new film.
"I had to decide as an actress, 'Did she have the murder gene? Was she born a killer?' And I don't believe she was," Gaga told NPR host A Martínez on Morning Edition. "I think that it was these trigger points of trauma throughout her life that turned her into what she became, which was a monster."
You can read the full transcript HERE.
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Lady Gaga Wins New York Film Critics Circle Award For Best Actress

Lady Gaga got her very first acting award for her role in House of Gucci, winning New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) is an American film critic organization founded in 1935. The NYFCC Awards are the oldest given by film critics in the USA, and one of the most prestigious. NYFCC Awards ceremony is held every December, viewed as a kick-starter of the upcoming Awards Season, finishing with the Academy Awards, scheduled for March 2022.
The Circle’s membership includes critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, and qualifying online general-interest publications. NYFCC Awards honor aesthetic merit in a forum that is immune to commercial and political pressures.
Along with Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics,  the NYFCC is known for its highbrow taste. Its annual awards are one of the more prestigious film critics awards and are often viewed as harbingers of Oscar nominations.
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Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett to Perform on MTV Unplugged

Following their “One Last Time” CBS Special, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett are teaming up once again. MTV Unplugged will host the duo on Thursday, December 16th at 9PM EST.
Tony Bennett first performed for MTV Unplugged in 1994. He won Album Of The Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 37th Grammy Awards. This will be Lady Gaga's first MTV Unplugged performance.
Watch the preview below.


MTV Unplugged showcases "stripped down, intimate performances" that allow artists to "share sincere and impactful moments with their fans around the world."
Gaga and Bennett are set to perform songs from their new jazz standards album, Love For Sale, which serves as the followup to 2014's Cheek to Cheek. The website also mentions "a handful of surprises you definitely don't want to miss."
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Lady Gaga Interviewed On "This Morning"

Lady Gaga appeared as a guest on ITV's show This Morning and chatted with the host Alison Hammond.
Gaga shared more details about Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci, and spoke about her accent and how she prepared for the role with the help of her co-stars from the movie.
 
You can re-watch the whole interview HERE.
House of Gucci is out now in cinemas.
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"House Of Gucci" DVD and Blu-ray Available For Pre-Order, Out February 22

House Of Gucci is now available for pre-orders on both DVD and Blu-ray formats.

Ridley Scott’s latest film, starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray formats on February 22.
US, you can pre-order the Blu-ray/DVD set for $25.99 on BestBuy.com.
UK, you can pre-order the DVD for £9.99, and Blu-ray for £14.99 on HMV.com.
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PREMIERE: One Last Time With Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

The highly anticipated farewell concert special One Last Time: An Evening With Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, had its premiere on CBS Sunday night. The duo performed their classics, including "Love For Sale," "Anything Goes," and "The Lady is a Tramp."

One Last Time follows the release of Tony and Gaga’s final collaborative jazz album Love For Sale, nominated for 6 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. The CBS special offered a glimpse into Tony’s farewell concert with Gaga, which took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York this past summer.

Lady Gaga opened the show with her rendition of "Luck Be A Lady," followed by "Orange Colored Sky," the latter of which was the song Tony Bennett first watched her perform. He asked her to record their duets album "Cheek To Cheek" that very night. She then continued with "Let's Do It," which is also featured on the duo's latest album, "Love For Sale."
Gaga then welcomed Tony to the stage with "New York, New York," during which she said, "He’s my friend, he’s my musical companion, he’s the greatest singer in the whole world...So you better cheer, you better yell, you better laugh, you better cry, you better give your soul because it’s up to you." 

Tony then continued the set with "Watch What Happens," "Steppin' Out With My Baby," and "Fly Me To The Moon." Gaga returned to the stage to perform some of their classic duets such as, "The Lady is a Tramp," "Love For Sale," and "Anything Goes." Mr. Bennett closed out the show with his most famous hit, "I Left My Heart In San Francisco." Gaga then escorted him off stage one final time.
The duo are also set to appear on MTV Unplugged on December 16th at 9PM EST. One Last Time: An Evening With Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga is now available to stream on Paramount+.
 
 
 
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Lady Gaga To Be Featured In Music Documentary

Lady Gaga will be a part of a new music documentary entitled Write Record Tour, directed by Matt Schichter. 

Write Record Tour will feature in-depth interviews, rare footage, and exclusive recordings of some of the biggest stars on the planet, while they share intimate insight on their creative processes of songwriting, recording, and touring.
The documentary is currently in post-production and is expected to release in April 2022.
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Lady Gaga Visits The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Lady Gaga took over primetime TV as the featured guest on the November 24 edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
 
Gaga spoke about her experience singing at the presidential inauguration, her advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community, working on her latest film House of Gucci, and her longtime friendship with her "musical companion", Tony Bennett. Their latest collaborative jazz album, Love For Sale, scored 6 Grammy nominations earlier the same day, including a nod for Album of the Year.
 
The show later shared a clip of Gaga and Tony's performance of "Anything Goes" at One Last Time: An Evening With Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga. The special airs Sunday, November 28 on CBS.
 
 
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Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett Score 5 Nominations at the Grammy Awards

The nominees for the 64th GRAMMY Awards have been announced. The Recording Academy has nominated Lady Gaga in 5categories, including Album of the Year.
The singer has been nominated in the following categories:
Album Of The Year
Record Of The Year
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Best Music Video
Lady Gaga's jazz album with the legendary Tony Bennett has been recognized by the Academy for AOTY. The album has been seen as a sentimental favourite since it is the final recording of Bennett, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
With these nominations, Gaga is now a 34-time GRAMMY nominee, and currently boasts 12 wins.
Love for Sale has also been nominated for Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical). 
The 64th GRAMMY Awards will take place on January 31, 2022.
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Reviews Pour In For “House Of Gucci”

Following the media embargo for House Of Gucci, reviews for the film are now being published. These reviews count towards Metacritic, as well as Rotten Tomatoes. The movie has garnered overwhelmingly positive recognition after the premieres in London, Milan, New York, and Los Angeles. The movie is set to release in theaters in the U.S. on November 24th, and the 26th in the U.K.
Check out the new reviews below.
”…beneath the Ferrari-red snowsuits and wild wiggery, she vibrates with an intensity that often supersedes the sillier bits, every hand clap and espresso-cup tap another brick in a highly GIF-able whole.”
-Entertainment Weekly
”What a pleasure it is to see Lady Gaga transform from a musician with an artificial stage persona to an earthy and accessible actress, with the acumen to deliver a comic, distinct and distinguished performance.”
-San Francisco Chronicle
“…she inhabits Patrizia as an outsider several times over: First as a Reggiani in the Gucci family, then as a woman in the fashion world. Of course, her new relatives never let her forget either of those facts.”
-IndieWire
”Lady Gaga comes off the best here, as she modulates her performance based on her screen partners. This allows her to give one of the best ‘movie star’ performances of the year, giving a big performance that never loses sight of the humanity within the character”
-Moviejawn
“She takes the character of Patrizia seriously: every inflection, every gesture, every minute she is on screen, and the effect ranges from funny to pure pathos.”
-ScreenDaily 
”Gaga’s Patrizia is a spitfire, getting her Lady Macbeth on by convincing her husband, who had aspirations to be a lawyer, to look into the family business.”
-Nashville Scene
“Lady Gaga is absolutely sublime as the cunning and enigmatic Patrizia... She commands the screen with a confident, assured presence that is both graceful and aggressive.”
-FilmUpdates
"...the high-gloss and even higher-fashion festival of backstabbing stars Gaga as the woman whose controversial business practices after marrying into the Gucci fashion dynasty included hiring a hit man to deal with her pesky, cheating husband."
-Chicago Tribune
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LISTEN: "House of Gucci" Interview Special Podcast

Universal UK has released a special podcast on Spotify and Apple Music titled "House of Gucci: Interview Special", featuring the whole cast of Ridley Scott's new movie "House of Gucci". Here's a description of the episode.
Welcome to the House of Gucci Interview Special, a deep-dive into the luxurious world of one of 2021’s biggest movies, featuring conversations with stars Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek, Camille Cottin and Jeremy Irons, as well as acclaimed costume designer Janty Yates and the movie’s legendary director Sir Ridley Scott.
You can listen to the podcast below.


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IICONI to Release Exclusive Born This Way Artwork

The collectors’ edition of Lady Gaga's third studio album Born This Way will be released by IICONI and be available at FNAC. This edition consists of an exclusive frame, and with the IICONI app, anyone can use their phone to scan which grants access to a digital version of the album.

The IICONI edition of Born This Way will include the deluxe album, as well as over 20 remixes. It will also feature photos, music videos, and Gagavision episodes.
The artwork is on presale for €59.90 or $67.60.
Click here to read more and purchase.
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Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett Set to Perform on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”

In anticipation of their upcoming CBS special, One Last Time, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett will team up to perform songs from their latest duets album, Love For Sale on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The duo will appear on Tuesday, November 23rd. 
Lady Gaga will sit down for an interview with Colbert, with a special performance with Tony to follow.
The duo’s latest album, Love for Sale is expected to be nominated at the upcoming Grammy Awards. The nominations will be announced on the same day, November 23rd.
One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga airs Sunday, November 28th on CBS.
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“House of Gucci” Premieres in Los Angeles

House of Gucci held another major premiere event this evening ahead of its wide release, this time in Los Angeles at the Academy Museum.
Lady Gaga and her co-stars Adam Driver, Al Pacino, and Jared Leto, and director Ridley Scott were on hand to celebrate the film’s return to the West Coast, each of them serving a show-stopping look that they, as a cast, have become known for.

Gaga sparkled in a stunning golden Valentino gown, serving a tribute to Old Hollywood glamour.
      
On the red carpet, Gaga revealed her desire to celebrate Italian designers through each of her premiere looks for House of Gucci.
Gaga also spoke about the creative dynamic she shared with Scott, and how the instantly-iconic “Father, Son, and House of Gucci” line was improvised.
When asked if she would consider collaborating with Britney Spears, Gaga said “of course!”, and congratulated her on her freedom from her recently-terminated conservatorship.
House of Gucci hits theatres November 24.
 
 
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Lady Gaga Shares More Details About "House of Gucci" In New Interview

Lady Gaga shares more details regarding her new movie role in "House of Gucci" in a new interview.
Lady Gaga speaks about her co-stars in the movie, specifically Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jared Leto and Salma Hayek. She shares new thoughts regarding the intricate story of the movie and speaks about the delicate costumes, the strength of her character and why the film is meant to be seen in theaters.
"House of Gucci" opens on November 24th.
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Lady Gaga interviewed by BBC News

Lady Gaga gave another interview for BBC News describing how she used her own traumatic experiences to enrich her brand new role in the upcoming "House of Gucci" movie.

Gaga spoke to BBC News about tapping into her traumatic past to improve her performance in her role as Patrizia Reggiani.
She said: "I used all of these memories, all of these traumas, all of these moments in my life. Less of the hustle as part of her character, but more of being assaulted when I was 19 by a music producer, feeling endlessly controlled by men as I continued my career and tried to find my own voice and be in my own empowerment - not power, but empowerment, as a woman. I took from every trigger point that I could find, and I allowed myself to experience - I could cry talking about it - survival mode all the time."
And then added: "So it was very painful on set because I was constantly working using sense memory. I've been very open about having post-traumatic stress disorder, and I have complex PTSD. So that's not a single incident PTSD, it's multiple incidents. I used all of them at different times in different moments in the script."
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How Born This Way Foundation Saved Pose’s Indya Moore

Actor Indya Moore, best-known for their role in the hit series “Pose”, has spoken out about how Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation helped them along their journey.
During a dinner event hosted by Dom Perignon, which saw them make a sizeable $570,000 donation to BTWF, Moore gave a moving speech commending them for the work they do to support young LGBTQ+ people. 
In their speech, Moore revealed that they were homeless just before beginning work on Pose. “I just went straight into working and being an artist and everything that I am to people, and so now I’m trying to be something more for myself. And that’s what I’ve been focused on."
"It was because of this foundation that I was able to be safe for so long and have some kind of structure,” Moore attested. "I got to stay in care until I was about 22 or 23," referring to a foster care system that typically stops looking after people once they turn 18. Born This Way Foundation actively makes donations to foster care agencies to allow people to remain in the system longer.
Founded in 2011 by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, the organization is "committed to supporting the wellness of young people, and empowering them to create a kinder and braver world."
Learn more about the Born This Way Foundation here.
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“House of Gucci” Announces Exclusive Exhibition with De La Revolución

Lady Gaga’s upcoming film, House of Gucci, has announced an exclusive exhibition, in collaboration with De La Revalución, opening for limited engagements in Los Angeles and New York.

The event is “an exclusive photo and costume exhibition, featuring a mix of never-before-seen photography, costumes & film footage”. It was curated by the film's costume designer Janty Yates.
LOS ANGELES: Nov. 23 - Dec. 3 at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
NEW YORK CITY: Dec.5 - 6 at Fotografiska New York
Visit welcometothehouseofgucci.com for more.
 
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Lady Gaga Covers Latest Issue of The Hollywood Reporter

This week’s cover of The Hollywood Reporter has been revealed, featuring a stunningly wicked Lady Gaga in support of her new film House of Gucci.

Lady Gaga by AD + DM for THR
You can read an extract from the interview below.
[...] One day while shooting a scene with Salma Hayek, who plays Patrizia's confidant, Gaga was laying on a couch rely- ing on a Stanislavski acting technique (in which she would run through sense memories from an emotional event) when the line between her own experiences and Patrizia's began to blur. "It's a scene where I knock a lit candle across the room, and I remember I gave Salma a heart attack that day, " Gaga says. "I was falling apart as (Patrizia) fell apart. When I say that I didn't break character, some of it was not by choice." Gaga had experienced this kind of dissociative state before - including once when she was hospitalized. On the Gucci set, Scott intervened, concerned by the impact the performance seemed to be having on his leading actress. "Ridley said, 'I don't want you traumatiz- ing yourself,'" Gaga says. "And I said, 'I already have. I've already been through this anyway. I might as well give it to you.' And he said, 'Well, leave it here and don't do this to yourself anymore.' [...] "I took the pain I feel from being attacked when I was a young girl, from feeling left behind by people that I love, from feeling trapped that I can't go out into a world that I love," Gaga says. "I took that pain and I gave it to her." Her House of Gucci performance is one that will cement Gaga's place not as a singer who acts, but as an actress full stop, and confirm that her Oscar nomination for 2019's A Star Is Born was no fluke.
After seeing A Star Is Born, Scott wanted Gaga for House of Gucci and quickly set up a meeting. "There was only one person ever in my sights at this moment in time who could carry this pretty forthright woman, [...] I found Stef to be inordinately approachable and, frankly, a lot of fun. She's very smart and very, very perceptive. I knew after that first meeting, it was essential that she would do this part. She must. And, of course, because of her very recent success [in A Star Is Born], that made it a lot easier for us to get going and get a proper budget." (The movie cost more than $75 million.)

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Gaga sees Patrizia as a performance of a lifetime "meaning I put my entire lifetime into her" - and a cautionary tale about what happens to a woman who has been taught that all of her value is in the man whom she marries. In a scene where a family attorney serves Patrizia divorce papers at her daughter's school, "I yelled at him for every woman on earth, the way that we all do," she says. "As a woman, I feel like I really can snap into something that's not about the person that I'm yelling at. It's like I'm yell- ing at all the men that came before them. It doesn't make it right, but it's real."
Her interpretation of Patrizia is a femi- nist one - that what drove a woman to murder was going unseen and unheard by the men around her. "I can assure you, you should never put a hit out on your husband," Gaga says. "But my love and best wishes and my heart go out to all of us women who try to survive and matter in a man's world. While lots of men were trying to figure out what piece of this pie they were going to get to keep, while they were watching the money, they should have been watching her. And because they didn't pay attention to her, they lost everything."
[...] "My mother and father met me as Patrizia a couple times," Gaga says. "And they were mostly laughing because my family gets a kick out of my love of artistry... There's a downside to committing yourself to a role in that way because it's an adjustment for everybody around you. Suddenly, you're not talking to Stefani anymore with an accent. You're talking to Patrizia Gucci." Hayek praises the end result, "the fresh ness of [Gaga's] performance and creativity in her choices.'" She was the ultimate professional," Hayek says.

Lady Gaga by AD + DM for THR
On most days during the three-and-a-half-month production, Gaga woke up around 3 a.m. to begin her transformation, a process that included donning a prosthetic bald cap under her various wigs. Often after she awoke she vomited, from some mixture of "anxiety, fatigue, trauma, exhaustion, commitment and love," she says. "You wake up, you throw up, you go to set, throw up again."
As British costume designer Janty Yates details, "Ridley [Scott] wanted Lady Gaga to look more like Gina Lollobrigida than Joan Collins of Dynasty, so basically we looked at all the photos of Gina in her prime in the '60s, and I did a later-'70s version of the lace dress." (To create the outfit, the costume team's hand cutter Dominic Young individually applied every piece of lace.)
In May of 2020, during the dark early months of the pandemic, Gaga released the house music-inspired Chromatica, her sixth consecutive No. 1 album. Though still a hit, it sold only a fraction of her early dance music albums, like 2009's The Fame and 2011's Born This Way. She attributes some of that to the moment, a time when people were scared and secluded at home, not out dancing in clubs. "[The early pandemic] was a time where enter- tainment was, in a way, so needed," Gaga says. "But also we just were not fully in the place to receive that. And I think that that's OK. Sometimes the world is just not in a place to be able to take in art and have it feel good." Gaga says she struggled with depression while making Chromatica. "That album was so difficult," she says. "Almost every day that I went into the studio, I didn't want to be there. When I went into the studio, I used to say, 'I'm so depressed on a clinical deep level, and I do not want to create anything. I'm not entertained right now.' ... During that time, that music did not make me happy, entertainment did not make me happy, performing did not make me happy."

Lady Gaga by AD + DM for THR
[...] Gaga has now sung on the Oscars stage three times and twice at the Super Bowl (including as the halftime per- former), but 2021 brought a performance with a new kind of stakes for her - the inauguration, which happened two weeks after the attack on the Capitol and in a month when 3,135 Americans were dying per day from COVID-19. "I had to speak to the country and the world in a different way,' she says. "For that performance, it was through Stefani, meaning myself. And in the world that all went through the last four years together, with Donald Trump. In a lot of ways, I thought to myself, 'How could I possibly be patri- otic?' I remember thinking that we were at war. And this was a war song. Singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" 5 feet from Mike Pence, 4 feet from George W. Bush, 10 feet from the president-elect, I really realized while I was up there, Oh, that's right. Not everything is like Donald Trump. We can all be seated in the same place together and be civilized and move forward.' And I found peace in that. I found that to be orderly. Kindness can be orderly."

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You can read the full interview on hollywoodreporter.com
 
Part of this article originally appeared on the November issue by The Hollywood Reporter.
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