Director Scott, fashion family trade barbs over ‘House of Gucci’

Father, son and house of ego. The Guccis on Monday issued a new statement slamming the portrayal of the fashion house family in Ridley Scott’s campy, star-studded “House of Gucci,” which just hit theaters.

The statement, reported by Variety, came on the heels of Scott, 84, detailing the family’s “alarmingly insulting” complaints about the film prior to its Thanksgiving weekend release.

“The production of the film did not bother to consult the heirs before describing Aldo Gucci — president of the company for 30 years [from 1953 to 1986] — and the members of the Gucci family as thugs, ignorant and insensitive to the world around them,” read the family’s statement.

The film centers on the way in which Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga) married into the Gucci family, turning them upside down and ultimately hiring a hit man to kill ex-husband Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver). Aldo in the film is played by Al Pacino. The family has also taken issue with the portrayal of Paolo Gucci by Jared Leto.

“I tried to be as respectful as possible by being as factual as possible, and as factual as we can possibly imagine,” Scott (photo) told the podcast “Inside Total Film.”

“The people that were writing from the family to us at the onset were alarmingly insulting, saying that Al Pacino did not represent physically Aldo Gucci in any shape or form. And yet, frankly, how could they be better represented than by Al Pacino? Excuse me!” he exclaimed. “You probably have the best actors in the world, you should be so f-----g lucky.”

The director did concede though that the film is a bit of “a satire,” admitting there’s limited information about Leto’s character, but “That’s exactly what Paolo looks like.”

“There’s not a lot of Paolo on camera talking. And so that had to be, to a certain extent, imagined,” he explained.

“The flamboyance of Paolo was quite nicely captured. And how could that be offensive? We paid attention to not getting too overt if we can avoid it.”