- Title: Lady Gaga takes off the make-up for movie role
- Date: 31st August 2018
- Summary: VENICE, ITALY (AUGUST 31, 2018) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR-SINGER, LADY GAGA, SAYING: " From the moment he opened his mouth, we were sitting at the piano in my room in the living room and he started to sing and I stopped dead, oh my gosh, Bradley, you have an incredible voice - he sings from his gut, you know from the nectar, from the soul and I think this comes across so strong in Jack's character, and what I loved so much about working with Bradley is that there was a true exchange you know, he accepted me as an actress and I accepted him fully as a musician.''
- Embargoed: 14th September 2018 16:09
- Keywords: Lady Gaga Bradley Cooper directorial debut Venice Film Festival A Star Is Born
- Location: VENICE, ITALY/ VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- City: VENICE, ITALY/ VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: Italy
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Film
- Reuters ID: LVA0048VIOLE5
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Lady Gaga, the pop singer rarely seen without strikingly coiffed hair and heavy makeup, had to go natural for her first starring role in a movie, she said ahead of the film's world premiere on Friday (August 31).
Gaga plays a girl-next-door character who achieves her dream of becoming a famous singer in "A Star Is Born", directed by co-star Bradley Cooper.
"He wanted to see me with nothing," Gaga told a news conference at the Venice Film Festival.
"I walked down the stairs of my house before we filmed the screen-test for 'A Star Is Born' and he had a make-up wipe in his hand and he put his hand on my face and he went like this," she said, miming Cooper rubbing her face.
"There was make-up, just a little bit, and he said: 'I want no make-up on your face'. And so, this vulnerability was something he brought out of me."
In the movie, Gaga's character Ally has been told her nose is too big and it will prevent her becoming a success, something the 32-year-old singer said she empathised with.
"When I was first starting out, you know, I was not the most beautiful girl in the room," she said, adding that her faith in her own songwriting talent allowed her to forge ahead.
"There were lots of women that were singers but did not write their own music. Many record execs wanted to take my songs and give them to other women to sing, and I was, like, holding onto my music with my cold, dead fingers saying: 'You're not going to take my songs from me'."
"A Star Is Born" premieres in a non-competition slot at the Venice Film Festival which runs from Aug. 29 to Sept. 8. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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