Since Little Women, House of Gucci has grossed $150.4 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing drama since that time. It did much better than Ridley Scott’s other 2021 film, The Last Duel, but if the love scene between Lady Gaga and Salma Hayek had not been deleted, it would have easily topped $200 million.
“There’s a whole side of this film that you didn’t see, where Pina [Hayek’s character] and I developed a sexual relationship,” Gaga said during a Q&A panel earlier this month, “but it’s a whole side of this film that you didn’t see, where Pina [Hayek’s character] and I developed a sexual relationship.” Maybe it will end up on a director’s cut (Scott knows a thing or Before describing how it would have turned out, she shrugged innocently.
“[Salma’s] walking around the house and the camera was following her feet and all her cats were following her, and Salma, in order to get the cats to follow her, she put a bunch of catnip in her boots. So, Salma’s walking around the house and the cats are following her,” she said (Hayek’s owl must have been jealous). “Then we’re surrounded by cats and we started making out – and I made out with Salma Hayek. I’m like that really, you know, annoying kid in school that’s like bragging that they made out with the popular girl, but has no proof.”
