A Star Is Born - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[jeffrey]

Bradley Cooper also appears in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) with Josh Brolin, whose stepmother, Barbra Streisand, played the female lead in the 1976 version on A Star Is Born (1976).

[janice]

Lady Gaga's name is derived from the Queen song 'Radio Ga Ga', which ironically was featured in the film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018). The two movies would compete for most of the major Academy Awards that year.

[charlie]

Alabama singer-songwriter Jason Isbell wrote "Maybe It's Time" for the film.

[liam]

Lady Gaga's performance ritual of praying with her dancers before going out onstage is also shown in the film. Just before Ally performs "Shallow" for the final time, she is seen praying with her dancers asking God to look out for them and Jackson.

[francisco]

Elizabeth Kemp was a mentor and acting teacher to both Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. She passed away just before the film's world premiere; the film is dedicated to her memory.

[lynn]

The photographer in the photo shoot scene is Matthew Libatique, the film's cinematographer.

[riley]

Lady Gaga actually dyed her hair vibrant orange for the film, but had to jump between the film's orange hair and her trademark blonde hair outside of filming. The real, dyed hair can be identified when Ally's bangs are parted down the middle or when her hair is in a bun style (e.g., when Ally and Jack are recording in the studio, when she is in the bathtub, or when Ally visits Jack in rehab). The wig, however, is on when she is rehearsing choreography, performing at her tour, or attending the Grammys. The repetitive dying process caused Gaga's real hair to fall out, which is why halfway through filming she switched to wigs.

[addison]

The only time Jack says "I love you" to Ally is when he's asking her to sing "Always Remember Us This Way". The only time Ally says it to Jack is during her Grammy acceptance speech.

[edgar]

What is learned about Jack's father is that he ran away from something to Arizona in his early 60s, worked on a pecan ranch past the age of retirement, slept with a 17-year-old when he was 62 or 63, was drinking buddies with his 13-year-old (or younger) son, and was too drunk to notice his son's suicide attempt, which preceded his own death by a matter of months.

[bryan]

The studio and producers desperately wanted Beyoncé for the role of Ally. She was attached to the project back in 2015, but decided to pass on it to focus on her music. Writer Camilla Blackett was in talks to re-write Bradley Cooper's script then and stated that the first thing she said in the meeting was that Beyoncé didn't have nearly enough lines. She also stated the original screenplay is very different from the final film.

[jesus]

Rebecca Field and Greg Grunberg starred on The Client List (2012) as husband and wife for two years. In this movie, they each have small parts in the scene where Ally is being dropped off at Jackson's concert.

[phyllis]

Bradley Cooper said that Lady Gaga was the one who convinced him they should sing live. Gaga said she hated watching movies where the actors were not lip-syncing correctly to the songs, and to avoid this and get it right they needed to sing live for the film. This was what caused Cooper to get more extensive vocal training.