Bradley Cooper found nothing shallow about Lady Gaga’s performance in “A Star Is Born.”
In a new interview alongside “House of Gucci” director Ridley Scott, the two filmmakers discussed their “mind-blowing” experiences working with Gaga.
"For me, with working with her, I remember the thing that blew my mind," Cooper told Variety. "It seemed simple but I thought it was a tall order, when my character brings [Ally] onstage for the first time. I truly believed that that person had never been on a stage before."
Despite being a global pop star who has toured around the world, Gaga made it seem like she was a shy and awkward amateur about to belt out the Academy Award winning song “Shallow.”
"And I remember thinking, 'How is she pulling this off?'" Cooper added. "That I actually believe on every level -- as the director, as the character -- that this person has never been in front of 20,000 people before. That was really kind of mind-blowing."
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Scott shared the scene when Gaga’s portrayal of Patrizia Reggiani in “House of Gucci” left him flabbergasted.
"There was a moment I thought, 'My God, she closed it up,’" the 84-year-old director said. "That was the scene in the schoolyard. Jack Huston [who plays Domenico De Sole] turns up in his Porsche to inform her that [Maurizio] is proposing divorce. And she lost it so well and so real that I felt it had to be reflective of something that had happened to her, because it definitely hurt her."
Scott knew she had completely embodied the real-life character.
"And from that moment I was watching her, I felt, ‘My God, she just owns it,’" Scott continued. "I think that was one take with a handheld camera. I was saying, ‘I think you just did it, don’t you?’ And she said, ‘Yes, I did it.’ That was it.”"
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Gaga was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role in “A Star Is Born” and won the Academy Award for Best Song for “Shallow.”
So far, the 35-year-old has received Critics Choice and Golden Globe nominations for her role in “House of Gucci.”
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