Her hair is brown, kind of cut into a simple shag tied in knots, and she barely wears makeup. As she slowly gets more and more known, she changes. She has to change. Her hair becomes more done-up Lady Gaga’s performance was incredibly powerful and now we know why. In a new interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, Gaga explained that she was just about to film that scene when she received a haunting phone call from her friend, Sonja Durham. Durham was terminally ill with stage IV cancer. Lady Gaga's constant reinvention has never felt arch; instead, it takes frequent detours off pop music's highway."I feel like my whole career is a tribute to David Bowie," she told NPR's Michel Bradley Cooper spoke about perfecting his voice for Jackson Maine in ‘A Star Is Born’ and his upcoming Oscars performance with Lady Gaga when he stopped by Stephen Colbert’s ̵… After Gaga’s Ally spends the first half of the film falling in love with Cooper’s turbulent, alcoholic rock star Jackson Maine and playing her songs around the country with him on his tour A Star Is Born tries hard to make us believe that Ally and Jackson’s love is an idyllic one that’s torn apart by addiction, and that’s why this story is a tragedy. It’s not that simple Introduction. A Star is Born is a romantic drama film released in 2018 directed by Bradley Cooper and starring himself and Lady Gaga. It is the fourth remake of the original 1937 film of the same name. The movie tells the story of a successful musician Jackson Maine (Cooper) who discovers and falls in love with a struggling artist Ally (Gaga). Advertisement. “A Star is Born” is an award-winning romantic drama starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. The film follows the story of an aspiring singer-songwriter named Ally, played by Lady Gaga, and a successful musician named Jackson Maine, played by Bradley Cooper. Together, they embark on a passionate love story, navigating the highs A few minutes after A Star Is Born’s Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) discovers Lady Gaga A Star Is Born has been the story of a fading male icon passing the torch to an up-and-coming ingénue The True Story Behind A Star Is Born's Ending Explains The Problem . There have been four versions of A Star Is Born: the 1937 Hollywood-skewering original starring Janet Gaynor and Frederick March, the 1954 musical starring Judy Garland and James Mason, the 1976 shift to the music industry with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and the latest Cooper/Gaga release. s6XSjh.