Lady Gaga pre-recorded her performance at the Olympics due to “safety reasons”.
The 38-year-old pop star sang ‘Mon Truc En Plumes’ on a set of stairs along the Seine River in Paris – but Maud le Pladec, the choreographer of all Olympics and Paralympics opening ceremonies, has now revealed that the performance was actually pre-recorded.
Speaking to Variety, Maud explained: “Unfortunately, it was the only [performance] that, for safety reasons, we had to pre-record late in the afternoon, once we knew for sure that it was going to rain – we had minute-by-minute updates, we had never watched the weather forecast so closely in our lives.
“We assessed that it was going to be too dangerous for performers, even with a few drops of rain. [Gaga] wanted to do it absolutely so we preferred to pre-record it rather than cancel it.”
Maud explained that the performance wouldn’t have worked in the bad weather.
She said: “The soil would have been slippery. She was wearing heels, very near the water, there were stairs … We had to be extremely cautious.”
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