xv surprising things you probably didn't know nearly 'A Star Is Born'

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"A Star Is Born" (2018) is an Oscar-nominated picture show starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga.
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  • Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper starred in the 2018 version of "A Star Is Built-in."
  • Cooper learned how to play multiple instruments for his office.
  • Ally's first song in the motion-picture show is the aforementioned song that helped Gaga land the role.

Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga's 2018 Oscar-nominated picture show "A Star Is Born" is the fourth reboot of the time-honored story of a fading musician and the struggling artist he falls in love with.

You may have heard about Cooper and Gaga singing together for the kickoff time at Gaga's Malibu, California, home or how the Oscar contender wowed audiences at the Venice Film Festival, merely there are plenty of other interesting tidbits about the film.

Hither are fifteen things you might not have known virtually "A Star Is Born."

Other versions of the movie could've included Volition Smith and Jennifer Lopez or Beyoncé and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Beyoncé was supposedly nigh in a remake of "A Star is Born."
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Equally per Newsweek's reports in 2002, Will Smith was courting Jennifer Lopez for the project, proverb it might work if they tin get their schedules together.

Smith wanted to show off his singing skills by playing the role Gaga had in the latest moving-picture show, and he wanted Lopez to accept on the other leading role.

And Clint Eastwood wanted to straight the film with Leonardo DiCaprio every bit the done-upwardly star and Beyoncé as his romantic atomic number 82, co-ordinate to Deadline's reports.

In 2012, Variety reported that Beyoncé was apparently on board to start filming the remake, merely her pregnancy pushed back the picture'south start appointment for near a year. Eventually, she reportedly barbarous out of the project.

Bradley Cooper learned how to play guitar and piano for his part.

He learned two new instruments in a few months.
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In an interview with Due west Magazine, Cooper said he spent vi months learning pianoforte and guitar for his role.

"We mapped out my entire schedule, day by day," Cooper said. "I'd wake up and work out, followed by 2 hours of guitar practice and two hours of piano lessons."

The doc in the film is Cooper's existent-life ear doctor.

Jack'due south md plays a small just of import role in the pic.
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Cooper told People that his existent-life dr., Derek Jones, plays his fictional ear doc in the motion picture, Dr. Slattery — a small but pivotal role.

Cooper also told People that the role of Tommy is played by someone he went to grad school with. "So many of the people in this motion-picture show are people I've known forever," he said.

Cooper worked with a dialect coach to mimic another actor in the film.

He wanted to mimic Sam Elliot's accent.
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Actor Sam Elliott plays Jackson'due south older brother in the film, and so Cooper worked with a dialect double-decker for six months to brand his speaking vocalisation resemble Elliott's.

Cooper chosen Elliott's Sacramento-Texan twang the perfect "hybrid accent"; still, Cooper did all this song training earlier he even approached Elliott with the role.

"Give thanks God he said yes, considering I would have had to rewrite the whole thing. Six months of work on my vocalisation would have gone down the drain," Cooper told Vanity Fair.

Cooper's onstage persona was inspired by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.

Cooper spent a few days with Eddie Vedder to ask him questions.
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Cooper said he wanted to model his onstage performance later on iconic Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder.

"I went up to Seattle and spent four or five days with him and I asked him 9,000 questions," Cooper told Yahoo Amusement.

Interestingly, Vedder advised him against doing the movie. Manifestly, Cooper didn't listen.

Lady Gaga might've paid a tribute to Judy Garland in the film.

Gaga stars as Ally in the 2018 version of "A Star Is Born."
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During the title sequence, Gaga's grapheme hums "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," which many took to be an homage to Judy Garland, who played the ingenue part in the 1954 version of the film.

Garland starred in "The Magician of Oz," which prominently features this song.

Gaga helped choose the drag queen who played her character's mentor.

In the movie, Shangela Laquifa Wadley is an emcee.
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The Daily Creature reported that Lady Gaga specifically requested that famed drag queen Shangela Laquifa Wadley play her character'due south mentor.

The former "RuPaul's Drag Race" contestant said she took the office very seriously.

"It almost felt like RuPaul bringing me back on another season, where it's like, OK, this person stood up for me, has invested in me, has spoken for me; I better practice a good chore," Shangela told The Daily Creature.

Well-nigh of the drag gild scenes were improvised.

Some of them weren't initially in the script.
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"Mr. Cooper allowed us to improvise a piffling also in our roles," Shangela revealed in an interview with The Playlist.

Cooper was so surprised by the performer's talent and natural power to improvise that he invited Shangela and some other "RuPaul's Drag Race" favorite, Willam Belli, back to film some unscripted scenes.

"Originally, I was only supposed to proceed set up for one day and, at the end of that day, I remember that Bradley and Lady Gaga both said … they really wanted to switch some things around and add together Willam and I to some other scene," Shangela told The Playlist.

Ally'due south commencement song in the film is the aforementioned song that helped Gaga land the role.

The song helped Gaga land the office.
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Ally sings Édith Piaf'south "La Vie en Rose" when Jackson offset meets her. Gaga sang the same song to win over Cooper and land the part in the film. Gaga performed the song at a private cancer benefit in Los Angeles and Cooper was immediately starstruck.

"She had her hair slicked back and she sang 'La Vie en Rose,' and I was just … levitating." Cooper told Vogue. "It shot similar a diamond through my encephalon. I loved the fashion she moved, the audio of her vocalism."

He told Vogue that he drove to Malibu to meet her the very adjacent day.

Willie Nelson's son Lukas Nelson cowrote a majority of the songs.

He's partially responsible for some of the film'due south songs.
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One of the guitarists in Jackson Maine's fictional ring is Lukas Nelson, aka Willie Nelson's son. Lukas Nelson, a performer and frontman in his own right, besides cowrote a bulk of the songs in the film.

Co-ordinate to Rolling Rock, Gaga, Cooper, and Nelson formed such a musical bond that Gaga sang backing vocals on the song "Carolina" by Nelson's band, Promise of the Existent.

Gaga stopped wearing makeup for the months leading up to the shoot date.

Ally'due south hair is quite different from Gaga'due south pilus.
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Gaga's character in the pic has a very natural expect. The singer revealed on "The Late Testify with Stephen Colbert" that, to go into graphic symbol, she started physically preparing for her function several months before the shoot date.

"I changed my hair and took off my makeup months before filming the movie," she told Colbert. "I had to get into character. I had to get used to it."

The dog in the moving-picture show is Cooper'south dog.

The domestic dog is named Charlie.
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"There was no nepotism — I wanted this relationship with the dog," Cooper told People. "[Jackson and Ally] don't have a child together only they have a domestic dog together, and I wanted it to be part of their story. I love dogs."

His dog is named later on Cooper's late father, Charlie. Cooper said this helped him to feel as if both his dog and his begetter were a part of the making of the film.

Some of Gaga's real-life stylists and dancers appear in the moving-picture show.

Yous can spot them throughout the picture show.
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Instead of hiring actors, Cooper cast Gaga'south own dancers, choreographer, and hair and makeup artists to appear in some scenes.

Halsey has a small cameo in the motion picture.

She played herself.
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Singer Halsey appears in the motion picture equally herself to present Marry Maine with the Grammy for best new artist at the fake awards show.

"I play myself for a very minor moment!" the vocaliser tweeted. "Which is insane because it means Gaga and Bradley saw me worthy of representing a piece of the current country of music in this flick forever. They could have picked any creative person. It was so humbling and unreal."

Marry's all-time friend is played by an original "Hamilton" cast member.

He was formerly on Broadway.
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Ally's best friend, Ramon, is played by Anthony Ramos, who originated the dual roles of John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in "Hamilton." The Broadway star said the most exciting part of the film was seeing Gaga's work ethic up close.

"People simply see the distinction, but no ane actually sees the moments in between the takes where the other person's thinking well-nigh how to make it better, the moments between the songs when possibly this piano is out of tune: 'Tin can we prepare this? I really want to get this right,'" he told Vanity Fair. "That's the kind of artist she is."

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