 Show Bradley Cooper made his directorial debut in A Star Is Born alongside Lady Gaga in October. The musical, a remake of the 1970s drama starring Barbra Streisand (also a remake of the 1937 and 1954 versions) chronicles the life of a small-town girl who moves to the big city to become a star. Cooper plays Jackson Maine, a has-been rock singer with an alcohol problem, to Gaga's Ally, the talented small-town girl in question. The plot mostly stays true to the original, showcasing the pitfalls and inevitable romance between Jackson and Ally along her rise to stardom. Cooper opened up about his experience shooting the film in April, telling Vulture, "[Gaga] said right from the beginning that there would be a barter. [She said] 'I'm gonna rely on you to get a performance that's honest out of me' [...] 'and I'm gonna make sure that you're going to turn into a musician. Because we're going to sing everything live.' And I went, 'Wait, what?'" That's correct: Bradley Cooper will be singing live in the movie! Gaga reportedly told the 43-year-old actor that she wasn't a fan of movie stars lip-syncing to a prerecorded song in films. "She's right!" he agreed. "[Singing live] was terrifying, and I really relied on her. I spent about a year and a half taking vocal lessons and preparing." Even though the movie took only 42 days to shoot, Cooper revealed it took three years for him to fully get into character. "The broken love story in A Star Is Born kept haunting me. Shots kept coming into my head. I would dream about it. I realized I had to [direct it], whether it fails or not," he shared. "I knew I had to try, and I wound up absolutely loving it. You can't hide when you sing. The best way to express love is through singing and music. I knew if I could marry that in a way, it would be special." The film premiered on Oct. 5, so run to the nearest theater to get a taste of Cooper's singing for yourself. To be totally honest? We're impressed. Bradley Cooper is not a natural born singer. There are no tales of a childhood band or lost hours spent learning how to scream just right in a garage. He was not a member of a college a cappella act, and when people refer to him as a triple threat, its because he now has credits as an actor, director, and screenwriter—not a singer. And yet in 2018, he became one of our favorite rockstars: Jackson Maine, a country drifter who can’t shake his addictions. Cooper, 44, starred in the fourth iteration of A Star Is Born, and following the release of the film’s killer soundtrack, he found himself atop the Billboard 200 albums chart. In the time since, he has performed in Las Vegas, joining his costar Lady Gaga onstage during one of her concerts. And on Sunday night, he’ll perform “Shallow” at the Oscars. How did he do it? According to his A Star Is Born co-musical director, Lukas Nelson, through a whole heck of a lot of research and practice. Nelson, who fronts The Promise of the Real, first met Cooper after the star caught a set he played with Neil Young, a hero of Cooper’s, at Desert Trip music festival in 2016. “We connected over our love of good music,” Nelson told Esquire.com last year. The two would hole up in Cooper’s L.A. home as often as possible over the next year as Cooper was prepping the Maine persona. “We’d sit down and play songs we knew he’d have to sing,” Nelson says of their process. “I’d play them back for him to show him where his voice could do better, where it could do worse. It was a matter of practicing to get to the point where not only could he carry a tune, but he could do it on cue, whenever.” Together, they channeled a list of greats that included Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson (who starred in the 1976 A Star Is Born film), Jim Morrison, Young, and, of course, Nelson’s father, Willie. “We’d talk about the soul of performance,” Nelson recalled, “and what it really means to connect to an audience; how to connect the way the heroes he was trying to emulate did.” Cooper also worked with a dialect coach, Tim Monich, to lower his singing voice a full octave. He wanted Maine to have a deep, raspy delivery, one not unlike his on-screen brother in the movie, Sam Elliott. They worked together five days a week, for four hours a day, for about six months to get Cooper ready, and, reportedly, it took every bit of it. As he told NPR, at first, he could only find his desired range hunched over, head down. “And at night,” he said, “I would go to sleep and I felt like my esophagus was lowering into my chest.” Managing his breath was particularly difficult, he explained, also to NPR. “I had no idea how to breathe,” he said. “I knew nothing about singing—nothing. It’s such a different art form to sing in front of people, because you lose your breath right away when you’re nervous.” He credits his teachers for crossing the hurdle. “Lukas Nelson [is] an incredible musician … it’s because I was a good student and listened to great teachers [that] I was able to do it.” But Jackson Maine isn’t actually coming to the Sunday evening ceremony. Instead, Cooper-as-Cooper will take that stage, he said when he stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this month. “[Jackson Maine]’s gone,” he said. “I’m not gonna try to get him back. But I will be me singing. I hope to be present and enjoy it. And hopefully people love the song sung that night.” Whether he's dropping the cowboy drip along with the voice, we’ll have to wait and see. Madison Vain is the Digital Director at Esquire; a writer and editor living in New York, she previously worked at Entertainment Weekly and Sports Illustrated. This content is imported from OpenWeb. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Why was Bradley Cooper's voice so deep in A Star Is Born?Turns out he drew inspiration from his co-star Sam Elliott. "One of the things, I knew I wanted to lower my voice. But I didn't want to make him too country," said Cooper. "Sam Elliott is from Sacramento but his mother was from Texas, so he has this accent that you can't quite place.
Did Lady Gaga do her own singing in A Star Is Born?On Warner Bros. ' remake of “A Star Is Born,” actor-director Bradley Cooper and co-star Lady Gaga refused to settle for the traditional practice of pre-recording their songs and later lip-synching on set. Instead, they embraced the more risky approach of performing the movie's songs live.
What's the first song Bradley Cooper sings in A Star Is Born?Bradley Cooper - Black Eyes - Full Performance (A Star Is Born) - YouTube.
Who sings shallow with Lady Gaga?91st Academy Awards. Gaga and Cooper performed "Shallow" together at the 91st Academy Awards on February 24, 2019. Cooper had confirmed that he would be singing in his own voice and not emulating that of his character in the film. The performance began with Gaga and Cooper walking up to the stage.
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