Bradley Cooper simply wished to take one other have a look at you.
The Oscar-nominated actor shocked hundreds Saturday after becoming a member of Pearl Jam onstage on the annual BottleRock Napa Valley music pageant to carry out “Maybe It’s Time” from his directorial debut, 2018’s “A Star Is Born” — in a dulcet duet with frontman Eddie Vedder.
“Please, would you join me in welcoming to the stage my great, great pal Bradley Cooper,” the enduring singer introduced as Cooper emerged, per footage captured from the group.
“How’s everybody doing?” Cooper requested followers earlier than they sang the Jason Isbell tune.
The efficiency was shared throughout YouTube and social media platforms like X, previously Twitter, to viral outcomes in a single day. Cooper famously wrote and directed the acclaimed movie containing the tune, and beforehand struggled with alcoholism like his character.
The drama chronicles fictional rock star Jackson Maine (Cooper) falling in love with an novice singer named Ally (Woman Gaga), who turns into his protégé and eclipses Maine — as he tragically continues to spiral into substance abuse.
Whereas it earned eight Oscar nominations and grossed greater than $436 million worldwide, Vedder was admittedly nervous when Cooper reached out for recommendation earlier than filming — as he was remaking an unique 1937 movie that had already been tackled twice on the time.
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“I went up to Seattle and spent four or five days with him and I asked him 9,000 questions,” Cooper informed Yahoo Films in 2018, including that Vedder was “wonderful” and shared “minor, little things that only musicians know about” however nonetheless felt a remake “was crazy.”
“He was like, ‘What? Bro, don’t do that,’” Cooper laughingly recalled on the time.
The consequence not solely outgrossed each prior iteration mixed however earned Gaga her first Oscar in a history-making second — and resulted in a chart-topping soundtrack that offered thousands and thousands. Vedder mirrored on all this throughout a cathartic 2020 interview with Howard Stern.
“When I saw it, I just was fucking blown away,” mentioned Vedder on the time. “It just … took me there and what he can do with his eyes and what they [Cooper and Gaga] did together, and then Sam Elliott. I mean, it really took me there. I’m getting chills right now.”
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