Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are set to appear together onscreen in 2018’s Drama/Romance film A Star Is Born out October

by Andrew Braithwaite
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Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are set to appear together onscreen in 2018’s Drama/Romance film A Star Is Born, out on October 5th.

The film will detail the life of a rising star, Ally, played by Gaga, who’s initially employed as an exotic dancer. “I don’t sing my own songs,” she says during the film’s first trailer. “Almost every single person has told me that they like the way I sounded but that they don’t like the way I look. ”

Countering Gaga’s unique beauty and sizzling vocals is Bradley Cooper, in the role of Jackson Maine. “I think you’re beautiful,” Maine replies, and their duo is cemented. Throughout the first trailer, various scene cuts show the developing romance of Ally and Jackson as she rises to stardom. “Hey!” Jackson calls out after dropping Ally off at home. “What?” she turns around to see him through his car window. “I just wanted to get another look at you.”

This is the fourth iteration of A Star Is Born, the second version starring Judy Garland released in 1954 and the third, featuring Barbra Streisand, released in 1976. Each movie displays the meteoric rise of a female performer, and the tests, trials, and tribulations that she must undergo in order to make it in the biz.

Musically, Ally and Jackson Maine - in Gaga and Cooper’s respective roles – are country singers. Opening the film’s first trailer, Maine sings along in a Southern twang to the strums of an acoustic guitar. “Baby it’s time to let the old ways die,” he sings. “It takes a lot to change, and it takes a lot to try.”

Visually, the movie trailer expresses a particular grunge; Ally’s discovered in a dank strip club by Maine, and together, the pair are often shown with messy hairdos and a lack of any form of glamor. The grunginess strongly contrasts both Gaga and Cooper’s usual, every day looks, one having made her name as an A-List songstress, the other as an A-List actor. Lady Gaga looks especially dissident from her high fashion, edgy, boundary-pushing style that accompanied her actual rise to fame in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s.

Other stars of the film will include Dave Chappelle as Jackson Maine’s comrade, Halsey as herself, Sam Elliott as Bobby - Jackson and Ally’s manager - and drag queen Shangela Laquifa Wadley. In addition to his starring in the film, Cooper will be making his directorial debut with A Star Is Born.

The film is set to be released October 5th.

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