Six years after the release of his film A star has been born, Bradley Cooper remembers freaking out at Beyoncé’s house right before production began.
During a recent interview with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, Cooper, who starred in and directed A star has been born, revealed that she met with Beyoncé and Jay-Z to talk about the former Destiny’s Child bandmate who plays the role of Ally, an aspiring singer in the film.
“I went to Beyoncé’s house and Jay-Z was watching Judge Judy, I still remember that,” Bradley Cooper explained. “I’m not kidding. And I was freaking out [out].”
“I remember I had a strange cough when I was telling him. He was crazy. She was amazing and so was he, and we developed it together for a year. I mean, she’s one of the greatest people of all time.”
However, Cooper shared that the deal fell through. After speaking with Beyoncé, Cooper said that he thought Adele could take on her role. But she texted him back and told him she was “busy.”
Shortly after being rejected by Adele, Bradley Cooper said that after hearing Lady Gaga sing at a benefit concert, he knew she was going to be the lead in the film. “She just blew the doors off the whole place, and that’s when I thought, ‘That’s it.’ What was she thinking? And then I asked to meet her.”
Lady Gaga ended up signing on for the film, which became a huge success. He earned eight nominations at the 91st Academy Awards and won Best Original Song for Shallow.
Bradley Cooper once recalled the moment Lady Gaga ‘blew him away’ with her talent
In 2021, Bradley Cooper spoke with Variety about Lady Gaga and revealed the moment the pop icon left him speechless.
“It seemed simple, but I thought it was a difficult task,” Cooper explained. “When my character brings [Ally] for the first time on stage. I truly believed that person had never been on stage before.”
Bradley Cooper continued to recall his exact thoughts at the time. “I remember thinking, ‘How is he doing this?’ that I really believe on every level (as a director, as a character) that this person had never been in front of 20,000 people before. “That was really mind-blowing.”
Ridley Scott, who was also in the interview. He also praised Lady Gaga for her talent in House of Gucci. “That was the scene in the schoolyard. Jack Huston shows up in his Porsche to inform him that [Maurizio] “He is proposing a divorce.”
“And she lost it so well and so real that I felt like it had to be a reflection of something that had happened to her, because it definitely hurt her. And from that moment that he was looking at her, I felt, ‘Oh my God, she just owns it.’”
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