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Adam Driver addresses Lady Gaga sex scene in ‘House of Gucci’: ‘We were feeling it’

Adam Driver and Lady Gaga play ill-fated lovers Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci in Ridley Scott’s new drama “House of Gucci” — but there was some intense chemistry behind the scenes.

Driver, 37, opened up about performing the romantic scenes between him and the Oscar winner, 35, during shooting.

“[Patrizia] very much uses sex as a tool, and I feel like it kind of physically embodies what’s going on between them; he comes from this not necessarily emotionally vapid, but [his life is] not as passionate, and that’s what she brought,” Driver told Entertainment Weekly at the drama’s premiere on Tuesday evening.

There is a love scene presented early on in the film and the two actors tried to prepare themselves to shoot the awkwardness.

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Adam Driver and Lady Gaga star as couple Maurizio Gucci and Patrizia Reggiani in “House of Gucci.” Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

“We blocked it out as we would any fight or any scene, then we just kind of ran it maybe once or twice, and that was it!” the “Girls” star told EW, which noted that there were animalistic noises in the steamy sex scene.

“We were feeling it, so to speak! Everything I say sounds like a double entendre, but we winged it,” Driver said. “I will say also, at that point, we had been shooting for a month, so we felt very comfortable to go where we needed to go.”

The fashion-forward flick stars an ensemble cast that includes an unrecognizable Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Al Pacino and Salma Hayek. The film mostly takes place in 1995, chronicling the events of Patrizia’s plot to kill her husband when he stepped out of his office.

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“We were feeling it, so to speak! Everything I say sounds like a double entendre, but we winged it,” Driver said of his love scene with Gaga. AP

While the stars all undertook heavy transformations to make themselves look like members of the Gucci dynasty, Gaga spent almost a year perfecting her Italian accent. “I lived as her [Reggiani] for a year and a half. And I spoke with an accent for nine months of that,” including off-camera, Gaga told British Vogue this month. “I never broke. I stayed with her.”

However, Italian actress and the dialect coach present on the set of “House of Gucci,” Francesca De Martini, wasn’t happy with the Grammy winner’s vocals.

“I feel bad saying this, but her accent is not exactly an Italian accent, it sounds more Russian,” De Martini recently told the Daily Beast.