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class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">This uld pass for nuendo plucked straight om any of the three <em><style data-emotn="css 9cezh6">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:#E61957;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="RuPl’s Drag Race" data-vars-ga-product-id="a5385104-acd9-4c22-8118-6ce276191dce" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"31518d15-56f8-4a3f-8799-8066452d82","se_id":"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-product-price="$34.99" 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But the drag queen is referrg to her role <em>A Star Is Born</em>—one she ially turned down. Evintly, not every girl bats their eyelash and answers to Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s beck and ll.</p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">At first, D.J. Pierce—better known by stage name Shangela Laquifa Wadley—was reluctant to dn for a role she wasn't nvced she uld nail. And then the Texas native got an email om Gaga’s manager, Bobby Campbell, whom she met while filmg Gaga's "<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Applse" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Applse</a>" lyric vio, which a gaggle of queens were st to dance alongsi Mother Monster herself.<strong> </strong>“LG wants you e and dn for this role.” Some would say the rt is history, though Shangela prefers to e her signature rallyg cry:<em>“<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Hallelloo!" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Hallelloo!</a>”</em> <br /></p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="4" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="Shangela A Star Is Born" tle="Shangela A Star Is Born" loadg="lazy" width="1800" height="1201" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="// Oprah&" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css 1am3yn9">{paddg-left:0rem;le-height:1;}</style><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Clay Enos</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="5" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Cooper’s directorial but wh stellar reviews is already beg ld as <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="2019 Osr ba" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">2019 Osr ba</a>. Shangela’s appearance is a supportg one, though pivotal. <em>A Star Is Born</em> is a love story, one centered around a cisgenr heterosexual alholic rock star, Jackson (Cooper) and the no-name sger he tapults to fame (Gaga). It’s based on <a href=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the 1937 mil" data-vars-ga-product-id="ad592146-16b5-405e-883f-59f486f3a113" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"31518d15-56f8-4a3f-8799-8066452d82","se_id":"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Image Entertament" data-vars-ga-product-price="$11.57" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="e476bffe-df1e-47c2-bc30-c70dc128a9e8" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Image Entertament" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" class="body-lk product-lks css-9cezh6 ebsw2pb0">the 1937 mil</a> starrg Ja Gaynor and Fredric March, and the lead rol have been reterpreted by <a href=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Judy Garland and Jam Mason" data-vars-ga-product-id="ed32dae4-6233-49b4-a7b7-9fbc1b790da1" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="sale | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"31518d15-56f8-4a3f-8799-8066452d82","se_id":"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Warner Manufacturg" data-vars-ga-product-price="$17.84" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="5d246dc6-b7ce-4548-9c12-99d7ff175af7" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Warner Manufacturg" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" class="body-lk product-lks css-9cezh6 ebsw2pb0">Judy Garland and Jam Mason</a> 1954, then <a href=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson" data-vars-ga-product-id="7cc088e2-9736-48b8-a9-31b211898a47" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"31518d15-56f8-4a3f-8799-8066452d82","se_id":"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-product-price="$2.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="737a58e4-98c5-435b-a3d9-4392d8a650cf" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" class="body-lk product-lks css-9cezh6 ebsw2pb0">Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson</a> 1976.</p><p data-no-id="6" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"> Fast forward to 2018, and ’s a drag queen—a bean of LGBTQ reprentatn both on and <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="off screen" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">off screen</a>—that's behd Gaga and Cooper's cematic meet cute. Not to be fotten? The fact that early on, the purpose of Shangela's character is to uplift. Y, I cried several tim durg the film, but the l she exchanged wh the star st were enough to keep me lghg, too. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="7" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1eiql25">{text-align:center;marg:0rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;paddg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><style data-emotn="css 1um4foy">{ntent:'“';display:block;font-fay:Juana,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:4.375rem;le-height:1.1;font-weight:300;height:2.25rem;marg-bottom:1.2rem;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-1um4foy eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css aqnz0y">{font-fay:Juana,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.625rem;font-weight:300;letter-spacg:0.01em;le-height:1.2;marg:0rem;text-transform:upperse;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.25rem;le-height:1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.75rem;le-height:1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><blockquote class="css-aqnz0y e1pe3zr90">Our role as drag queens is to promote nfince.</blockquote><style data-emotn="css 5cb97h">{ntent:'”';display:block;font-fay:Juana,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:4.375rem;le-height:1.1;font-weight:300;height:2.25rem;marg-top:0.9375rem;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-5cb97h eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="8" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Shangela, whose dn nvced producers to expand her brief speakg part, portrays the bar owner and drag “mother” that enurag Gaga’s character, Ally, to fd her footg on stage and eventually flirt wh Cooper's Jackson. The gravy of how lns of viewers will perceive this queer character isn’t lost on Shangela. In fact, ’s what she says Cooper, as the director, aimed to celebrate. Unlike other films that proposn queens as somethg to lgh at, there was no punch le surroundg her character. Her tentn is to pump Ally up wh nfince, much like any other iend, regardls of their genr inty or sexual orientatn, would do. And she do so marveloly. <br /></p><p data-no-id="9" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“I never felt like the character was someone that wasn’t rpected, or that was wrten a way that didn’t put the LGBTQ muny a posive light,” Shangela says, explag that while drag culture has s own diverse subsects, her role is wrten to exist eely, not wh the vacuum queer folk are often expected to stay . “Our role as drag queens is to promote nfince. When we stand tall, people feel more nfint standg tall around you. That ia was very important.”</p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Her cln the film reprents a move the right directn. In 2017, the <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD)" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD)</a> reported that only 14 out of the 109 movi released, a meager 12.8 percent, ntaed a sgle character that intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer, a 5.6 percent crease om the prev year. And while <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the statistics on televisn are better" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">the statistics on televisn are better</a>, LGBTQ reprentatn still looks the same: the majory of queer characters are portrayed by whe cisgenr men. Ryan Murphy’s<em> <a href=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Pose" data-vars-ga-product-id="25a52ed7-8225-4267-b5dc-6150ce839f26" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"31518d15-56f8-4a3f-8799-8066452d82","se_id":"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-product-price="$0.00" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="e76ae34f-3f03-4900-9b8e-fd6748a3cda1" class="body-lk product-lks css-9cezh6 ebsw2pb0">Pose</a></em>, which stars a lp of diverse transgenr actors, and now, <em>A Star Is Born</em>, will boost the numbers this year. As a gay man livg 2018, one all too faiar wh drag bars and the queens who n them, Shangela's role ma me feel seen. <br /></p><style data-emotn="css 8c6v">{posn:absolute;left:-10000px;top:to;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidn;}</style><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om youTube. 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I take that posivy wh me every day of my life,” she says. <br /></p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="18" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-1um4foy eagam8p0"></span><blockquote class="css-aqnz0y e1pe3zr90">Even if people don’t crown you, remember, you don’t need a have a crown to be a queen.</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-5cb97h eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="19" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">A humble upbrgg (“We didn’t grow up wh a lot of money”) spired her to bee the first her fay to go to llege. “I know if I give up, a’t nobody go’ be there to do the job. It’s jt me,” she says. “When they told me no on<em> Drag Race</em>, I jt kept g back. And I keep g back bee I don’t md dog the work.”<br /></p><p data-no-id="20" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Performg so brazenly wasn’t always easy for Shangela, who says she never que f , both as the half Black, half Sdi Arabian grandson of Southern Baptist Christians, and on <em>Drag Race.</em> “I always felt out of place, but I never let that hold me back,” she says, rellg her '90s high school days when she beme the first male cheerlear to jo the squad sce 1963. Her mantra: “Even if people don’t crown you, remember, you don’t need to a crown to be a queen. I live my life wh my head held high, and that’s what we all have to do—ph each other, enurage each other, and never give up.”</p><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om youTube. 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A STAR IS BORN: THE EASTER EGGS BRADLEY COOPER HID HIS LADY GAGA REMAKEINCLUDG HOMAG TO PREV A STAR IS BORN FILMS, THE IENDS HE ST, AND THE REAL-LIFE SPIRATNS BEHD THE MOVIE’S BT MOMENTS.BY JULIE MILLEROCTOBER 5, 2018JUDY GARLAND, 1954; JA GAYNOR, 1937; COOPER, 2018; BARBRA STREISAND AND KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, 1976.CLOCKWISE OM TOP LEFT, OM WARNER BROS/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; OM PHOTO 12/ALAMY; URTY OF WARNER BROS; OM THE EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEON FRIDAY, BRADLEY COOPER BAR HIS SOUL TO WORLDWI MOVIE DIENC VIA A STAR IS BORN, THE REMAKE HE -WROTE, DIRECTED, AND STARS OPPOSE LADY GAGA. COOPER WAS SO MTED TO THE PROJECT THAT HE LOGGED HUNDREDS OF HOURS LEARNG TO PLAY THE GUAR AND SG WELL ENOUGH TO PERFORM AT COACHELLA AND GLASTONBURY WHOUT BEG BOOED OFFSTAGE. HE ANALYZED HIS DREAMS, RE-PURPOSG CERTA IMAG AND IAS FOR ART. HE ED HIS OWN PA AND ADDICTN—WHICH HE HAS BEEN RELUCTANT TO DISCS TERVIEWS—TO ANCHOR HIS HEART-ACHG ROLE AS AN ADDICT WHO, SPE OF HIS ARTISTIC TALENT, IS BROKEN SI. HE SPENT HOURS TERVIEWG LADY GAGA WH HIS -WRER ERIC ROTH TO ENSURE THAT HER CHARACTER, ALLY, WAS THENTIC TO GAGA’S OWN STGGL. HE FILLED HIS ST WH PEOPLE WHO MEANT SOMETHG SPECIAL TO HIM—CLUDG HIS OWN EAR DOCTOR! HE RPORATED SUBTLE, SWEET HOMAG TO PREV VERSNS OF HOLLYWOOD’S FAVORE LOVE STORY. AS TAFFY BROSSER-AKNER WROTE FOR THE NEW YORK TIM, “EVERY TAIL OF [THE FILM] OM A TE THG—SOMETHG HE’S LEARNED, SOMETHG HE’S SEEN, SOMETHG HE KNOWS FOR SURE.”AS A PUBLIC SERVICE TO BETTER UNRSTAND COOPER AND HIS MAGNUM OP, WE PILED SOME OF THE EASTER EGGS, HOMAG, AND BRADLEY-ISMS THAT THE STAR-SLASH-DIRECTOR LOVGLY PLANTED HIS VERSN OF A STAR IS BORN. TO PARAPHRASE THE “SHALLOW” LYRICS BELTED OUT BY COOPER’S JACKSON AND GAGA’S ALLY AT A STADIUM MIC: WE’RE OFF THE EP END; WATCH AS WE DIVE .A JUDY GARLAND HOMAGEGARLAND’S STARRG ROLE 1954’S A STAR IS BORN EARNED HER AN OSR NOMATN. AND THE EARLY MOMENTS OF COOPER’S REMAKE, LADY GAGA PAYS SUBTLE TRIBUTE TO HER PRECSOR BY HUMMG “SOMEWHERE OVER THE RABOW.” IT IS DURG THIS RIFF THAT THE MOVIE’S TLE APPEARS KLIEG LIGHTS—AN ATHETIC NOD TO THE REMAK BEFORE .THE DRAG-BAR SIGNIFINCEEACH A STAR IS BORN FEATUR A DIFFERENT MEET-CUTE FOR S LEAD CHARACTERS. AFTER GAGA TOLD COOPER ABOUT HER EARLY DAYS PERFORMG DRAG BARS MANHATTAN’S LOWER EAST SI, COOPER CID TO SET THE UPLE’S NSEQUENTIAL MEETG AT A DRAG BAR—A KD OF TRIBUTE TO HIS LEADG LADY’S EARLY DAYS AND HER GAY FAN BASE. AS GAGA SAID AT THE TORONTO FILM FTIVAL, “I MAKE A JOKE SOMETIM: BEHD EVERY FEMALE IN IS A GAY MAN. I REALLY WOULDN’T BE HERE WHOUT THE GAY MUNY, WHAT THEY HAVE TGHT ME ABOUT LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE AND BRAVERY.”COOPER ALSO TOOK GAGA UP ON HER STG SUGGTNS FOR DRAG-BAR PERFORMERS, CLUDG WILLAM BELLI AND D.J. “SHANGELA” PIERCE. BELLI TOLD BTLE THAT COOPER ENTSTED THEM TO IMPROV THEIR SCEN, SAYG, “YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT GO ON A DRAG DRSG ROOM BETTER THAN ME, DO YOUR THG.’ HE JT LET ME GO OFF AND DO A BUNCH OF JOK.”ACRDG TO THE PLAYLIST, COOPER WAS SO PLEASED WH BELLI AND PIERCE’S WORK—THEIR SCEN ARE HILAR AND HEARTWARMG—THAT HE NVCED THEM TO RETURN TO SET AND FILM MORE THAN WHAT WAS ORIGALLY SCRIPTED. ONE SUCH BON SCENE FEATUR JACKSON—WHILE WAG FOR GAGA TO CHANGE CLOTH—PERFORMG FOR SHANGELA AS SHE UNTS OUT HER MONEY AFTER THE BAR HAS CLOSED.EYEBROWS: A BRIEF HISTORYEYEBROWS HAVE HAD A B PART EVERY ERATN OF A STAR IS BORN. IN THE 1937 ORIGAL, FOR EXAMPLE, JA GAYNOR’S CHARACTER GETS AN ELABORATE STUD MAKEOVER— WHICH THEY PAT ON OBNOX EYEBROWS BEFORE A SCREEN TT.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJUDY GARLAND’S CHARACTER RECEIV SUCH AN AWFUL STUD MAKEOVER THE 1954 VERSN THAT JAM MASON’S CHARACTER, GENTLEMAN THAT HE IS, PERSONALLY HELPS HER REMOVE THE HEO FACE PAT, FX EYEBROWS CLUD. (IN THE BELOW GIF, HE SENTIALLY DO EXACTLY WHAT COOPER DID TO GAGA DURG THAT OFT-TOLD MAKP WIPE ENUNTER.)THE FABULOLY MPY 1976 VERSN FLIPPED GENR ROL FOR S BIG BROW MOMENT: BARBRA STREISAND BEDAZZLG KRIS KRISTOFFERSON’S EYEBROW WHILE THE BATHTUB. (SHE ALSO APPLI ROUGE TO HIS CHEEKS AND TELLS HIM, “OOOH, YOU’RE SO PRETTY.”) IT WAS A HEAD-SCRATCHG MOMENT—AN HOMAGE JAMMED TO THE FILM WHOUT ANY NTEXT. BUT THERE WAS AN EVEN MORE W.T.F. ELEMENT TO THE SCENE THAT PULLS FOC: THE FACT THAT THEIR ROMANTIC, FACE-BEDAZZLG BATH IS L BY NDL STUFFED TO SCHLZ BEER NS.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHWHEN JACKSON FIRST SE ALLY PERFORMG, SHE IS SGG ÉDH PIAF’S “LA VIE EN ROSE” FULL PIAF MAKP AT THE DRAG BAR. (THE FIRST TIME COOPER SAW GAGA PERFORM, SHE WAS ALSO SGG “LA VIE EN ROSE.” COOPER WAS SO EMOTNALLY WRECKED OM HER BETIFUL RENDN THAT HE PUT THE SONG THE FILM—LETTG DIENC IALLY LAY EY ON GAGA THE SAME WAY HE DID.) LATER, BACKSTAGE, JACKSON PEELS OFF ALLY’S FAKE EYEBROWS AND PEPPERS HER WH QUTNS ABOUT HER MAKP APPLITN—QUERI THAT GAGA SAID SPRANG OM COOPER’S GENUE CURSY.“I REMEMBER HAVG A WHOLE NVERSATN WH HIM ABOUT SOAPG THE BROW, HOW YOU GET THE EYEBROW TO STAY DOWN,” GAGA TOLD VULTURE TORONTO. “YOU PAT WH POWR AND THEN YOU N’T SEE . ALL OF THE LTLE TAILS.”IN A NOD TO THE STREISAND-KRISTOFFERSON MAKP MOMENT, ALLY AND JACKSON LATER SHARE A BATH—DURG WHICH ALLY APPLI MASRA AND THE SAME TAPED-ON EYEBROW TO JACKSON. THANKFULLY, THERE IS NOT A SGLE SCHLZ-N NDLE SIGHT.A NOTE ABOUT GAGA’S NOSEFACE-TOUCHG, FOR WHATEVER REASON, HAS BEEN A THG A STAR IS BORN MOVI. SEE:MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHIN COOPER’S REMAKE, MOST OF THE FACE-TOUCHG RELAT TO GAGA’S NOSE—A FEATURE ABOUT WHICH BOTH GAGA AND HER CHARACTER ALLY FEEL SECURE.“ALMOST EVERY SGLE PERSON I’VE E NTACT WH THE MIC DTRY HAS TOLD ME THAT MY NOSE IS TOO BIG AND THAT I WON’T MAKE ,” ALLY TELLS JACKSON, A STATEMENT SPIRED BY THE REAL-LIFE SCTY GAGA FACED AS AN UP-AND-G ARTIST.“I WAS TOLD WHEN I WAS FIRST STARTG OUT THAT I SHOULD GET A NOSE JOB,” GAGA HAS SAID. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE LOS ANGEL TIM, GAGA FURTHER ELABORATED: “WHEN MY CHARACTER TALKS ABOUT HOW UGLY SHE FEELS—THAT WAS REAL. I’M SO SECURE. I LIKE TO PREACH, BUT I DON’T ALWAYS PRACTICE WHAT I PREACH.”IN THE FILM, JACKSON REASSUR GAGA, “I THK YOUR NOSE IS BETIFUL.” IN FACT, JACKSON SPENDS SO MUCH TIME FAWNG OVER ALLY’S BIGGT SECURY THAT THE INTER HAS ALREADY GENERATED MULTIPLE THK PIEC ON JACKSON’S FEELGS FOR ALLY’S NOSE THE HOURS SCE THE FILM PREMIERED.CHARLIE 101THE DOG THAT ALLY AND JACKSON ADOPT IS NOT JT ANY DOG. HE IS BRADLEY COOPER’S REAL-LIFE DOG. AND HIS STG WAS PERSONALLY IMPORTANT TO COOPER.COURTY OF WARNER BROS. PICTUR.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHON NPR, COOPER EXPLAED THAT THERE “WERE LTLE THGS THAT I DID, CREATED, ORR TO KEEP MY [LATE] FATHER CLOSE, ONE OF THEM BEG THAT OUR DOG THE MOVIE’S NAME IS CHARLIE, WHICH IS MY FATHER’S NAME.” COOPER FURTHER EXPLAED THE STG TO PEOPLE: “[JACKSON AND ALLY] DON’T HAVE A CHILD TOGETHER, BUT THEY HAVE A DOG TOGETHER, AND I WANTED TO BE PART OF THEIR STORY. I LOVE DOGS.”COOPER HAS JOKED THAT THE ROLE HAS GONE TO CHARLIE’S HEAD, ADPANNG, “HE HAS AN AGENT. I DON’T TALK TO HIM MUCH ANYMORE. HE DON’T RETURN MY LLS.”THE EAR DOCTORIN COOPER’S A STAR IS BORN, JACKSON SUFFERS OM TN, A NDN THAT NTRIBUT TO HEARG LOSS AND MAK DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO SG. COOPER WAS SO TERMED TO REALISTILLY PICT THE NDN THAT HE NSULTED WH HIS OWN EAR DOCTOR—WILLIAM SLATTERY III, M.D., PRINT OF THE HOE EAR CLIC LOS ANGEL—AND EVEN GAVE HIM A MEO THE FILM. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE CUT’S KELLY CONABOY, SLATTERY SEEMED AS SURPRISED ABOUT THIS STG FLOURISH AS YOU LIKELY ARE. (“FOR SOMEBODY DOG EAR SURGERY ALL THE TIME, THIS WAS A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD TO BE .”) COOPER WAS SO PLEASED WH SLATTERY’S MEO THAT HE EVEN NAME-CHECKED THE DOCTOR WHILE TRODUCG THE MOVIE AT THE LOS ANGEL PREMIERE.MORE FRIENDS & FAY CASTGCOOPER’S SUPPORTG ST IS FILLED WH PEOPLE NEAR AND AR TO HIS HEART, CLUDG DAVE CHAPPELLE, WHOM COOPER MET SEVERAL YEARS AGO LONDON, WHEN COOPER WAS PERFORMG ONSTAGE THE ELEPHANT MAN. AFTER CHAPPELLE SAW COOPER’S SHOW, THE DUO STAYED UP UNTIL 4:30 A.M. TALKG AND EVENTUALLY EXCHANGED NUMBERS. THEIR DYNAMIC WAS SO “SPECIAL,” SO “THENTIC,” THAT COOPER WANTED TO GIVE HIS CHARACTER A TE-BLUE IEND THAT WASN’T ONLY LIKE CHAPPELLE, BUT WAS PLAYED BY HIM. SO COOPER FLEW TO OH TWICE TO NVCE THE EDIAN TO MAKE AN ACTG EBACK HIS MOVIE. (THE FILMMAKER EVEN END UP STG CHAPPELLE’S REAL-LIFE DGHTER SANAA AS HIS CHARACTER’S DGHTER.) AFTER CHAPPELLE FALLY SAW A STAR IS BORN AT THE TORONTO FILM FTIVAL, HE WAS BLOWN AWAY BY WHAT HIS IEND HAD MA: “TONIGHT IS THE FIRST TIME I’VE SEEN MYSELF A GOOD-ASS MOVIE,” HE MARVELED AFTER THE PREMIERE.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHCOOPER ALSO ST FORMER ALIAS -STARS RON RIFK (AS THE HEAD OF A REHAB FACILY JACKSON CHECKS TO) AND GREG GNBERG (AS JACKSON’S LIMO DRIVER). HE PICKED ANDREW DICE CLAY—WHOSE ALBUM COOPER MEMORIZED 8TH GRA—TO PLAY GAGA’S ON-SCREEN FATHER. COOPER’S GRAD-SCHOOL BUDDY GABE FAZ PLAYS TOMMY. HE ALSO ST DRENA DE NIRO, DGHTER OF HIS SILVER LGS PLAYBOOK -STAR ROBERT DE NIRO, AS CHAPPELLE’S SCREEN WIFE.70S COSTUME NOSTALGIASTREISAND FAMOLY WORE HER OWN CLOTHG FOR THE 1976 REMAKE—WH THE ON-SCREEN CRED FABULOLY READG, “MS. STREISAND’S CLOTH OM . . . HER CLOSET.”ER BENACH, WHO SIGNED THE STUM FOR COOPER’S A STAR IS BORN, ED THE 70S AS AN FLUENCE FOR JACKSON’S BPOKE SHIRTS AND BELT. BENACH, MEANWHILE, TELEGRAPHED ALLY’S TRANSFORMATN THROUGH STUME, BEGNG WH T-SHIRTS AND JEANS AND BUILDG UP TO HIGH-SIGNER FASHN ONCE ALLY FDS FAME. ACRDG TO THE FILM’S PRODUCTN NOT, BENACH ALSO BED VTAGE STOR FOR ALLY’S CLOSET. THE CHARACTER’S WEDDG DRS SEEMS TO BE A NOD TO STREISAND’S OWN BOHEMIAN BRIDAL LOOK.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHDENSTCTG JACKSONCOOPER HAS EXPLAED THAT HIS UNTRY-ROCK SGER IS AN AMALGAMATN OF FLUENC. HIS CHARACTER’S BACKSTORY IS PARTIALLY SPIRED BY A LE BCE SPRGSTEEN’S TOBGRAPHY ABOUT HOW THE ROCKER “TOOK HIS FATHER’S VOICE.” IN AN TERVIEW WH VANY FAIR AT THE TORONTO FILM FTIVAL, COOPER SAID THAT, GROWG UP, HE WANTED TO BE HIS FATHER. SO HE TOOK THE TWO SENTIMENTS AND CREATED A HEARTBREAKG STORY LE BETWEEN JACKSON AND HIS MUCH-OLR BROTHER/FATHER FIGURE, PLAYED BY SAM ELLTT. COOPER WAS SO SET ON ELLTT -STARRG THE FILM THAT THE ACTOR TRAED WH A VOL ACH TO APPROXIMATE ELLTT’S WBOY TWANG BEFORE EVEN APPROACHG THE ACTOR. (ELLTT WAS SO TOUCHED BY COOPER’S WORK THAT HE AGREED TO THE ROLE.)AS FOR THE SHAGGY-HAIRED LOOK AND ROCK-STAR SWAGGER, COOPER SPENT SEVERAL DAYS SHADOWG PEARL JAM ONTMAN EDDIE VEDR SEATTLE. CERTA MANNERISMS WERE SPIRED BY DREAMS—LIKE THE WAY COOPER CSH HIS PILLS WH THE HEELS OF HIS BOOTS.WHILE UNTRY SGERS TYPILLY PUT HATS ON TO PERFORM, COOPER WANTED JACKSON TO DO THE OPPOSE, WEARG HIS HAT MOST OF THE TIME—EXCEPT WHEN HE IS ONSTAGE AND AT HIS MOST VULNERABLE.“JT WANTED TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT YOU”AFTER DROPPG ALLY OFF AT HER HOME FOLLOWG THEIR FIRST EVENG TOGETHER, COOPER’S JACKSON ROLLS DOWN HIS S.U.V. WDOW AND SHOUTS, “HEY.” ALLY TURNS HER FACE BACK TOWARD JACKSON. AND JACKSON LIVERS THE INIC LE, A VARIATN OF WHICH HAS BEEN ED EVERY A STAR IS BORN FILM TO BOOKEND THE CENTRAL LOVE STORY.JULIE MILLER

A STAR IS BORN: THE EASTER EGGS BRADLEY COOPER HID HIS LADY GAGA REMAKEINCLUDG HOMAG TO PREV A STAR IS BORN FILMS, THE IENDS HE ST, AND THE REAL-LIFE SPIRATNS BEHD THE MOVIE’S BT MOMENTS.BY JULIE MILLEROCTOBER 5, 2018JUDY GARLAND, 1954; JA GAYNOR, 1937; COOPER, 2018; BARBRA STREISAND AND KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, 1976.CLOCKWISE OM TOP LEFT, OM WARNER BROS/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; OM PHOTO 12/ALAMY; URTY OF WARNER BROS; OM THE EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEON FRIDAY, BRADLEY COOPER BAR HIS SOUL TO WORLDWI MOVIE DIENC VIA A STAR IS BORN, THE REMAKE HE -WROTE, DIRECTED, AND STARS OPPOSE LADY GAGA. COOPER WAS SO MTED TO THE PROJECT THAT HE LOGGED HUNDREDS OF HOURS LEARNG TO PLAY THE GUAR AND SG WELL ENOUGH TO PERFORM AT COACHELLA AND GLASTONBURY WHOUT BEG BOOED OFFSTAGE. HE ANALYZED HIS DREAMS, RE-PURPOSG CERTA IMAG AND IAS FOR ART. HE ED HIS OWN PA AND ADDICTN—WHICH HE HAS BEEN RELUCTANT TO DISCS TERVIEWS—TO ANCHOR HIS HEART-ACHG ROLE AS AN ADDICT WHO, SPE OF HIS ARTISTIC TALENT, IS BROKEN SI. HE SPENT HOURS TERVIEWG LADY GAGA WH HIS -WRER ERIC ROTH TO ENSURE THAT HER CHARACTER, ALLY, WAS THENTIC TO GAGA’S OWN STGGL. HE FILLED HIS ST WH PEOPLE WHO MEANT SOMETHG SPECIAL TO HIM—CLUDG HIS OWN EAR DOCTOR! HE RPORATED SUBTLE, SWEET HOMAG TO PREV VERSNS OF HOLLYWOOD’S FAVORE LOVE STORY. AS TAFFY BROSSER-AKNER WROTE FOR THE NEW YORK TIM, “EVERY TAIL OF [THE FILM] OM A TE THG—SOMETHG HE’S LEARNED, SOMETHG HE’S SEEN, SOMETHG HE KNOWS FOR SURE.”AS A PUBLIC SERVICE TO BETTER UNRSTAND COOPER AND HIS MAGNUM OP, WE PILED SOME OF THE EASTER EGGS, HOMAG, AND BRADLEY-ISMS THAT THE STAR-SLASH-DIRECTOR LOVGLY PLANTED HIS VERSN OF A STAR IS BORN. TO PARAPHRASE THE “SHALLOW” LYRICS BELTED OUT BY COOPER’S JACKSON AND GAGA’S ALLY AT A STADIUM MIC: WE’RE OFF THE EP END; WATCH AS WE DIVE .A JUDY GARLAND HOMAGEGARLAND’S STARRG ROLE 1954’S A STAR IS BORN EARNED HER AN OSR NOMATN. AND THE EARLY MOMENTS OF COOPER’S REMAKE, LADY GAGA PAYS SUBTLE TRIBUTE TO HER PRECSOR BY HUMMG “SOMEWHERE OVER THE RABOW.” IT IS DURG THIS RIFF THAT THE MOVIE’S TLE APPEARS KLIEG LIGHTS—AN ATHETIC NOD TO THE REMAK BEFORE .THE DRAG-BAR SIGNIFINCEEACH A STAR IS BORN FEATUR A DIFFERENT MEET-CUTE FOR S LEAD CHARACTERS. AFTER GAGA TOLD COOPER ABOUT HER EARLY DAYS PERFORMG DRAG BARS MANHATTAN’S LOWER EAST SI, COOPER CID TO SET THE UPLE’S NSEQUENTIAL MEETG AT A DRAG BAR—A KD OF TRIBUTE TO HIS LEADG LADY’S EARLY DAYS AND HER GAY FAN BASE. AS GAGA SAID AT THE TORONTO FILM FTIVAL, “I MAKE A JOKE SOMETIM: BEHD EVERY FEMALE IN IS A GAY MAN. I REALLY WOULDN’T BE HERE WHOUT THE GAY MUNY, WHAT THEY HAVE TGHT ME ABOUT LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE AND BRAVERY.”COOPER ALSO TOOK GAGA UP ON HER STG SUGGTNS FOR DRAG-BAR PERFORMERS, CLUDG WILLAM BELLI AND D.J. “SHANGELA” PIERCE. BELLI TOLD BTLE THAT COOPER ENTSTED THEM TO IMPROV THEIR SCEN, SAYG, “YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT GO ON A DRAG DRSG ROOM BETTER THAN ME, DO YOUR THG.’ HE JT LET ME GO OFF AND DO A BUNCH OF JOK.”ACRDG TO THE PLAYLIST, COOPER WAS SO PLEASED WH BELLI AND PIERCE’S WORK—THEIR SCEN ARE HILAR AND HEARTWARMG—THAT HE NVCED THEM TO RETURN TO SET AND FILM MORE THAN WHAT WAS ORIGALLY SCRIPTED. ONE SUCH BON SCENE FEATUR JACKSON—WHILE WAG FOR GAGA TO CHANGE CLOTH—PERFORMG FOR SHANGELA AS SHE UNTS OUT HER MONEY AFTER THE BAR HAS CLOSED.EYEBROWS: A BRIEF HISTORYEYEBROWS HAVE HAD A B PART EVERY ERATN OF A STAR IS BORN. IN THE 1937 ORIGAL, FOR EXAMPLE, JA GAYNOR’S CHARACTER GETS AN ELABORATE STUD MAKEOVER— WHICH THEY PAT ON OBNOX EYEBROWS BEFORE A SCREEN TT.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJUDY GARLAND’S CHARACTER RECEIV SUCH AN AWFUL STUD MAKEOVER THE 1954 VERSN THAT JAM MASON’S CHARACTER, GENTLEMAN THAT HE IS, PERSONALLY HELPS HER REMOVE THE HEO FACE PAT, FX EYEBROWS CLUD. (IN THE BELOW GIF, HE SENTIALLY DO EXACTLY WHAT COOPER DID TO GAGA DURG THAT OFT-TOLD MAKP WIPE ENUNTER.)THE FABULOLY MPY 1976 VERSN FLIPPED GENR ROL FOR S BIG BROW MOMENT: BARBRA STREISAND BEDAZZLG KRIS KRISTOFFERSON’S EYEBROW WHILE THE BATHTUB. (SHE ALSO APPLI ROUGE TO HIS CHEEKS AND TELLS HIM, “OOOH, YOU’RE SO PRETTY.”) IT WAS A HEAD-SCRATCHG MOMENT—AN HOMAGE JAMMED TO THE FILM WHOUT ANY NTEXT. BUT THERE WAS AN EVEN MORE W.T.F. ELEMENT TO THE SCENE THAT PULLS FOC: THE FACT THAT THEIR ROMANTIC, FACE-BEDAZZLG BATH IS L BY NDL STUFFED TO SCHLZ BEER NS.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHWHEN JACKSON FIRST SE ALLY PERFORMG, SHE IS SGG ÉDH PIAF’S “LA VIE EN ROSE” FULL PIAF MAKP AT THE DRAG BAR. (THE FIRST TIME COOPER SAW GAGA PERFORM, SHE WAS ALSO SGG “LA VIE EN ROSE.” COOPER WAS SO EMOTNALLY WRECKED OM HER BETIFUL RENDN THAT HE PUT THE SONG THE FILM—LETTG DIENC IALLY LAY EY ON GAGA THE SAME WAY HE DID.) LATER, BACKSTAGE, JACKSON PEELS OFF ALLY’S FAKE EYEBROWS AND PEPPERS HER WH QUTNS ABOUT HER MAKP APPLITN—QUERI THAT GAGA SAID SPRANG OM COOPER’S GENUE CURSY.“I REMEMBER HAVG A WHOLE NVERSATN WH HIM ABOUT SOAPG THE BROW, HOW YOU GET THE EYEBROW TO STAY DOWN,” GAGA TOLD VULTURE TORONTO. “YOU PAT WH POWR AND THEN YOU N’T SEE . ALL OF THE LTLE TAILS.”IN A NOD TO THE STREISAND-KRISTOFFERSON MAKP MOMENT, ALLY AND JACKSON LATER SHARE A BATH—DURG WHICH ALLY APPLI MASRA AND THE SAME TAPED-ON EYEBROW TO JACKSON. THANKFULLY, THERE IS NOT A SGLE SCHLZ-N NDLE SIGHT.A NOTE ABOUT GAGA’S NOSEFACE-TOUCHG, FOR WHATEVER REASON, HAS BEEN A THG A STAR IS BORN MOVI. SEE:MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHIN COOPER’S REMAKE, MOST OF THE FACE-TOUCHG RELAT TO GAGA’S NOSE—A FEATURE ABOUT WHICH BOTH GAGA AND HER CHARACTER ALLY FEEL SECURE.“ALMOST EVERY SGLE PERSON I’VE E NTACT WH THE MIC DTRY HAS TOLD ME THAT MY NOSE IS TOO BIG AND THAT I WON’T MAKE ,” ALLY TELLS JACKSON, A STATEMENT SPIRED BY THE REAL-LIFE SCTY GAGA FACED AS AN UP-AND-G ARTIST.“I WAS TOLD WHEN I WAS FIRST STARTG OUT THAT I SHOULD GET A NOSE JOB,” GAGA HAS SAID. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE LOS ANGEL TIM, GAGA FURTHER ELABORATED: “WHEN MY CHARACTER TALKS ABOUT HOW UGLY SHE FEELS—THAT WAS REAL. I’M SO SECURE. I LIKE TO PREACH, BUT I DON’T ALWAYS PRACTICE WHAT I PREACH.”IN THE FILM, JACKSON REASSUR GAGA, “I THK YOUR NOSE IS BETIFUL.” IN FACT, JACKSON SPENDS SO MUCH TIME FAWNG OVER ALLY’S BIGGT SECURY THAT THE INTER HAS ALREADY GENERATED MULTIPLE THK PIEC ON JACKSON’S FEELGS FOR ALLY’S NOSE THE HOURS SCE THE FILM PREMIERED.CHARLIE 101THE DOG THAT ALLY AND JACKSON ADOPT IS NOT JT ANY DOG. HE IS BRADLEY COOPER’S REAL-LIFE DOG. AND HIS STG WAS PERSONALLY IMPORTANT TO COOPER.COURTY OF WARNER BROS. PICTUR.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHON NPR, COOPER EXPLAED THAT THERE “WERE LTLE THGS THAT I DID, CREATED, ORR TO KEEP MY [LATE] FATHER CLOSE, ONE OF THEM BEG THAT OUR DOG THE MOVIE’S NAME IS CHARLIE, WHICH IS MY FATHER’S NAME.” COOPER FURTHER EXPLAED THE STG TO PEOPLE: “[JACKSON AND ALLY] DON’T HAVE A CHILD TOGETHER, BUT THEY HAVE A DOG TOGETHER, AND I WANTED TO BE PART OF THEIR STORY. I LOVE DOGS.”COOPER HAS JOKED THAT THE ROLE HAS GONE TO CHARLIE’S HEAD, ADPANNG, “HE HAS AN AGENT. I DON’T TALK TO HIM MUCH ANYMORE. HE DON’T RETURN MY LLS.”THE EAR DOCTORIN COOPER’S A STAR IS BORN, JACKSON SUFFERS OM TN, A NDN THAT NTRIBUT TO HEARG LOSS AND MAK DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO SG. COOPER WAS SO TERMED TO REALISTILLY PICT THE NDN THAT HE NSULTED WH HIS OWN EAR DOCTOR—WILLIAM SLATTERY III, M.D., PRINT OF THE HOE EAR CLIC LOS ANGEL—AND EVEN GAVE HIM A MEO THE FILM. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE CUT’S KELLY CONABOY, SLATTERY SEEMED AS SURPRISED ABOUT THIS STG FLOURISH AS YOU LIKELY ARE. (“FOR SOMEBODY DOG EAR SURGERY ALL THE TIME, THIS WAS A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD TO BE .”) COOPER WAS SO PLEASED WH SLATTERY’S MEO THAT HE EVEN NAME-CHECKED THE DOCTOR WHILE TRODUCG THE MOVIE AT THE LOS ANGEL PREMIERE.MORE FRIENDS & FAY CASTGCOOPER’S SUPPORTG ST IS FILLED WH PEOPLE NEAR AND AR TO HIS HEART, CLUDG DAVE CHAPPELLE, WHOM COOPER MET SEVERAL YEARS AGO LONDON, WHEN COOPER WAS PERFORMG ONSTAGE THE ELEPHANT MAN. AFTER CHAPPELLE SAW COOPER’S SHOW, THE DUO STAYED UP UNTIL 4:30 A.M. TALKG AND EVENTUALLY EXCHANGED NUMBERS. THEIR DYNAMIC WAS SO “SPECIAL,” SO “THENTIC,” THAT COOPER WANTED TO GIVE HIS CHARACTER A TE-BLUE IEND THAT WASN’T ONLY LIKE CHAPPELLE, BUT WAS PLAYED BY HIM. SO COOPER FLEW TO OH TWICE TO NVCE THE EDIAN TO MAKE AN ACTG EBACK HIS MOVIE. (THE FILMMAKER EVEN END UP STG CHAPPELLE’S REAL-LIFE DGHTER SANAA AS HIS CHARACTER’S DGHTER.) AFTER CHAPPELLE FALLY SAW A STAR IS BORN AT THE TORONTO FILM FTIVAL, HE WAS BLOWN AWAY BY WHAT HIS IEND HAD MA: “TONIGHT IS THE FIRST TIME I’VE SEEN MYSELF A GOOD-ASS MOVIE,” HE MARVELED AFTER THE PREMIERE.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHCOOPER ALSO ST FORMER ALIAS -STARS RON RIFK (AS THE HEAD OF A REHAB FACILY JACKSON CHECKS TO) AND GREG GNBERG (AS JACKSON’S LIMO DRIVER). HE PICKED ANDREW DICE CLAY—WHOSE ALBUM COOPER MEMORIZED 8TH GRA—TO PLAY GAGA’S ON-SCREEN FATHER. COOPER’S GRAD-SCHOOL BUDDY GABE FAZ PLAYS TOMMY. HE ALSO ST DRENA DE NIRO, DGHTER OF HIS SILVER LGS PLAYBOOK -STAR ROBERT DE NIRO, AS CHAPPELLE’S SCREEN WIFE.70S COSTUME NOSTALGIASTREISAND FAMOLY WORE HER OWN CLOTHG FOR THE 1976 REMAKE—WH THE ON-SCREEN CRED FABULOLY READG, “MS. STREISAND’S CLOTH OM . . . HER CLOSET.”ER BENACH, WHO SIGNED THE STUM FOR COOPER’S A STAR IS BORN, ED THE 70S AS AN FLUENCE FOR JACKSON’S BPOKE SHIRTS AND BELT. BENACH, MEANWHILE, TELEGRAPHED ALLY’S TRANSFORMATN THROUGH STUME, BEGNG WH T-SHIRTS AND JEANS AND BUILDG UP TO HIGH-SIGNER FASHN ONCE ALLY FDS FAME. ACRDG TO THE FILM’S PRODUCTN NOT, BENACH ALSO BED VTAGE STOR FOR ALLY’S CLOSET. THE CHARACTER’S WEDDG DRS SEEMS TO BE A NOD TO STREISAND’S OWN BOHEMIAN BRIDAL LOOK.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHDENSTCTG JACKSONCOOPER HAS EXPLAED THAT HIS UNTRY-ROCK SGER IS AN AMALGAMATN OF FLUENC. HIS CHARACTER’S BACKSTORY IS PARTIALLY SPIRED BY A LE BCE SPRGSTEEN’S TOBGRAPHY ABOUT HOW THE ROCKER “TOOK HIS FATHER’S VOICE.” IN AN TERVIEW WH VANY FAIR AT THE TORONTO FILM FTIVAL, COOPER SAID THAT, GROWG UP, HE WANTED TO BE HIS FATHER. SO HE TOOK THE TWO SENTIMENTS AND CREATED A HEARTBREAKG STORY LE BETWEEN JACKSON AND HIS MUCH-OLR BROTHER/FATHER FIGURE, PLAYED BY SAM ELLTT. COOPER WAS SO SET ON ELLTT -STARRG THE FILM THAT THE ACTOR TRAED WH A VOL ACH TO APPROXIMATE ELLTT’S WBOY TWANG BEFORE EVEN APPROACHG THE ACTOR. (ELLTT WAS SO TOUCHED BY COOPER’S WORK THAT HE AGREED TO THE ROLE.)AS FOR THE SHAGGY-HAIRED LOOK AND ROCK-STAR SWAGGER, COOPER SPENT SEVERAL DAYS SHADOWG PEARL JAM ONTMAN EDDIE VEDR SEATTLE. CERTA MANNERISMS WERE SPIRED BY DREAMS—LIKE THE WAY COOPER CSH HIS PILLS WH THE HEELS OF HIS BOOTS.WHILE UNTRY SGERS TYPILLY PUT HATS ON TO PERFORM, COOPER WANTED JACKSON TO DO THE OPPOSE, WEARG HIS HAT MOST OF THE TIME—EXCEPT WHEN HE IS ONSTAGE AND AT HIS MOST VULNERABLE.“JT WANTED TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT YOU”AFTER DROPPG ALLY OFF AT HER HOME FOLLOWG THEIR FIRST EVENG TOGETHER, COOPER’S JACKSON ROLLS DOWN HIS S.U.V. WDOW AND SHOUTS, “HEY.” ALLY TURNS HER FACE BACK TOWARD JACKSON. AND JACKSON LIVERS THE INIC LE, A VARIATN OF WHICH HAS BEEN ED EVERY A STAR IS BORN FILM TO BOOKEND THE CENTRAL LOVE STORY.JULIE MILLER

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