Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s First Meeting Was Exactly Like the A Star Is Born Trailer

Author: Stephanie Eckardt / Source: W Magazine

It’s not just all of the Oscar buzz from critics that’s made Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s remake of the Hollywood classic A Star Is Born reach almost unprecedented levels of hype. With just under a month to go until the movie’s release date, there’s also been a notable contribution from the pair’s newfound penchant for fawning over each other in public, regaling seemingly anyone who will listen with stories like how Cooper, who directed the film, wiped the makeup off of Gaga’s face before her first screen test.

Now, thanks to Gaga’s new Vogue cover, there are even more details about their initial bond over spaghetti and their shared Italian roots—and it looks like their first encounter was the same meet-cute as in the film.

In case you haven’t seen the honestly perfect trailer, it shows Cooper’s character, Jackson Maine, a jaded country star with a drinking problem, becoming completely transfixed by Gaga’s character, Ally, upon catching her performance in a burlesque club. He prods her about why she doesn’t sing the songs she writes, before informing her, to her utter amazement, that he thinks she’s beautiful. From there, we see the pair fall hopelessly in love, as illustrated by over-the-top scenes like Cooper’s character calling over to Gaga’s from his car after they’ve already said goodbye, because he “just wanted to take another look at [her.]”

It’s all classic Hollywood camp—which actually turns out to have been the case in real life too. In 2016, shortly after he’d signed up to play Maine and tell his own version of the story, Cooper just so happened to head to a cancer benefit in Sean Parker’s backyard in L.A. and catch Gaga performing, at which point his life apparently changed. “She had her hair slicked back, and she sang ‘La Vie en Rose,’ and I was just…levitating. It shot like a diamond through my brain. I loved the way she moved, the sound of her voice,” he told Vogue, putting into words exactly what seems to be going through Jackson’s head upon his initial encounter with Ally in the trailer. (Minus the club’s hot pink glow.)

Like Jackson with Ally, Cooper was immediately smitten with Gaga….

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