Lady Gaga Decided to Perform at the Oscars 48 Hours Before Showtime — and More Wild Stories From This Year’s Emmy-Nominated Directors
09.08.2023 - 21:41
/ variety.com
Sophia Scorziello editor “A lot of what we do as directors is just putting out fires,” said “Ted Lasso” director Declan Lowney. Whether those are unavoidable or self-made fires, the directors at Variety’s Creative Collaborations: Directors on Directors panel all agreed that their shows and films faced serious challenges — but that didn’t stop their projects from earning Emmy nominations. Directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton of “Fleishman is in Trouble,” Peter Hoar of “The Last of Us,” Lowney of “Ted Lasso,” Glenn Weiss of “The Oscars” and Davis Guggenheim of “Still: A Michael J.
Fox Movie” joined Variety’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay for a conversation about their recent projects and the unexpected complications that came with them. Preparing for a live show as big as the Oscars takes serious planning, starting as early as the day nominations come out and running all the way up to the final week before the show. For Weiss the 2023 awards ceremony was a coin flip hinging on a possible performance by Lady Gaga.
In the week leading up to Oscar Sunday, Weiss was receiving word from Gaga that she might not perform. Finally, on the Friday before the show, Gaga confirmed her performance, and it was a 48-hour rush for Weiss and his team to prep. In conversations with Gaga, she conveyed that she wanted her performance of “Hold My Hand” to be stripped-down and intimate.
“She explained to me this song was so emotional,” Weiss recalled. “And she said, ‘If I even come to do this, I want to come, I want to do the red carpet as a nominee in my glam and my makeup. But then I want to be taken back to the dressing room, take off all my makeup, put on jeans and a T-shirt and do this raw.’” With the help of his team, Weiss
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