Lady Gagais getting critical acclaim for her performance as an aspiring singer inA Star Is Bornand she’s opened up about what it took to delve into her character’s deep insecurity.
“Well, what’s different between Ally and I is that when I decided I was going to go for it as a singer and songwriter, I just hit the ground running,” Gaga said. “I was dragging my keyboard around New York and I was pounding on doors. I really believed in myself.”
“What I had to do was go back further into my childhood, into my high school years, when I was bullied and made fun of for having big dreams,” she continued. “That’s where I went. But I think I went further because I trusted Bradley [Cooper] so much — to be vulnerable, to be my authentic self.”
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“He’s such an incredible director, he’s such an incredible actor. The experience of him acting and directing and producing and writing music at the same time was completely fluid. I’m just so grateful to be here,” she added.
Of their friendship, Cooper told PEOPLE, “I made a friend for life. As great as this movie was the thing that I think I’ll take away forever is the relationship I have with her because she is an incredible person. I’m very lucky to have worked with her.”
A Star Is Borncenters around Ally (Gaga), a struggling singer-songwriter who finds success amid a romance with Cooper’s country-rocker Jackson Maine.
“I’m just so glad God gave her the talent that she has and he chose her becausethat’s quite a vessel to go through,” Cooper said of Gaga during an interview earlier this month onGood Morning America. “Because it’s really what you do with it, and she’s such a beautiful human being.”
A Star Is Bornis in theaters Oct. 5.
source: people.com
