Details On Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” Kiss
It turns out that Heather Cassils, the woman that Lady Gaga makes out with in the prison yard during her epic video “Telephone” is a performance artist and personal trainer who was handpicked by Gaga for the coveted role. And, she tells Out.com, the kiss was not planned but sort of improvised, “She called me over and asked me to portray her girlfriend and said, ‘OK, you’re going to be my prison girlfriend, and you’re going to come to me, and I’d like you to touch me inappropriately.’…We just kind of went from there.” And there are more juicy bits:
On kissing Gaga:
“I think we did several takes — to be honest, it was a little bit of a blur because it happened so quickly. On the first, take her cigarette sunglasses were steaming a little bit, but by the third or fourth take we were both inhaling a lot of secondhand smoke [Laughs]. It was kind of intense. And it just kind of happened naturally because she didn’t really give me explicit instructions to kiss her — it just felt like a natural thing to do. In fact, I sniffed her like a kind of aggressive beast. And as we got closer, she actually put her tongue in my mouth. She just went for it. [Laughs] It was really good.”
And her somewhat frightening description of her own art:
“I recently got funding through the Franklin Furnace, which is the largest nonprofit performance art fund in New York City to do this piece called ‘Hard Times,’ which is kind of my portrait of the current culture of California. It features me — I train really, really hard so that I get really beefy and really ripped in a kind of scary way, and I do this performance on a really, really high piece of building scaffolding. I’m basically wearing a blonde Farrah Fawcett wig and a coral body thong. Basically, I do these body building poses but I slow them down incredibly, and I transfer from pose to pose so slowly that I create a nervous system overload — the entire body starts to quake and then the scaffolding does too. And when I turn around, you see that I have this prosthetic mask on that looks like my eyes have been removed from my head, and I have this soundtrack that I composed with a sound designer friend of mine, which is made up of 12 to 20 different wattages of just raw power — like literally the sound of electric power — and I mix all of that together and do this piece that basically, to me, is a portrait of California in this kind of economic crisis and this need to uphold the beautiful and the superficial in a place where we are rotting from the inside out in a lot of different ways.”
We’re totally going to go see that when it comes to town. And, just because we love it, here’s Lady Gaga’s Telephone video again:
Heather Cassils: Who’s That “Girl” [Out.com]
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