Lady Gaga, famed for treating her body and wardrobe like a moveable art gallery, is set to play the part of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in a new film inspired by the surrealist artist Salvador Dali.
Lady Gaga, who was at Cannes earlier this week to perform on the French television show Le Grand Journal, is in discussions to play the smirking subject in the forthcoming movie Dali 3D, a stylised mixture of live action and animation based on the artist’s life, which will start shooting in October. Dali will be played by the British actor Alan *******, opposite Javier Bardem as Pablo Picasso. “I’m sort of destined for that screen at some point,” Lady Gaga told US station SiriusXM Radio in February.
The film centres on a real incident in 1984 when Dali, then 80, was burnt by a fire in his bedroom. In the movie Dali is shown waking up in a hospital. While there, he imagines himself meeting various historical characters, including Picasso, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Lady Gaga’s scene will involve Dali going to the Louvre to view the Mona Lisa, at which point its subject comes to life, steps down from the canvas and goes for coffee with him.
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http://specials.forbes.com/article/0507b687nj73u
But great for her.
