Lady Gaga without make-up at the Oscars 2023: The singer surprises with extreme transformation and performs without make-up
The biggest surprise of the 2023 Oscars wasn’t Angela Bassett losing the Best Supporting Actress award to surprise winner Jamie Lee Curtis – it was Lady Gaga’s performance, although it was previously announced that she would be attending the March 12 show not would be on stage.
Lady Gaga’s surprise appearance: unvarnished and emotional
Gaga took the stage to perform a reduced, acoustic version of her Oscar-nominated song “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick. But it wasn’t just the performance itself that was a big surprise: despite wearing a full, full-face of makeup on the red carpet just hours earlier, the 36-year-old appeared with her face bare and just a faint trace of her crimson lipstick (which she wore for her walk down the beige carpet) as she sang her heart out.
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She swapped her dress from the Versace collection, which Gigi Hadid had just presented at the show of the Italian fashion house in LA a few days ago, for ripped skinny jeans, a wide T-shirt and worn-out sneakers – all in black.
It was first reported that Gaga would skip the 2023 Oscars appearance because she was too busy filming ‘Joker’: ‘Folie à Deux’, the 2018 sequel to Joker: “After some back-and-forth, we felt that she wouldn’t be able to pull off a performance of the caliber we’ve come to expect from her, so she won’t be performing on the show ‘ said Glenn Weiss, executive producer and showrunner of the Oscars, at a press conference last week. “She’s in the middle of filming a movie right now and we’re honoring the film industry and what it takes to make a movie.”
Lady Gaga on the red carpet of the Oscars 2023: 80s beauty and braids
Anyone who saw Lady Gaga’s red carpet beauty look certainly did not expect that just a few hours later she would be on stage without make-up (or at least very lightly made-up). Black kajal all over the eyes that has been slightly smudged, rouge up to the temples and bright red lips are not the easiest make-up features to be quickly removed.