Bradley Cooper talks Gaga film

Actor-director Bradley Cooper and singeractress Lady Gaga made a pact to perform well before starting with A Star Is Born.

Cooper is directing the remake of the 1937 film A Star Is Born, with Gaga in the lead role.

At the Tribeca Film Festival panel with his Limitless co-star Robert De Niro, Cooper opened up about the pact that he and Gaga made before the cameras started rolling.

“She said right from the beginning that this was going to be a bargain,” Cooper said.

“‘I’m gonna rely on you to get a performance that’s honest out of me’, because she’d never done a film before, and ‘I’m gonna make sure you turn into a musician, because we’re going to sing everything live’.

“And I thought, wait, what? She said, ‘No, the only way this is going to work — I can’t stand when I watch movies when they have music and you can tell when it’s pre-recorded and people are lip-syncing’. And she’s right.” —