The singer and actress Lady Gaga (33) starred with Bradley Cooper (44) last year's romantic musical film, Shallow; her portrayal as lovers on screen and their performance at the Oscars led some people to believe that the actors were also in a relationship off screen. That the actor and the model Irina Shayk broke up their courtship shortly after, fueled those romantic rumors.
But now, Gaga has revealed in an interview with Oprah Winfrey for Elle magazine that the gossip surrounding the couple only proves that they did an excellent " acting", because it was all a montage devised by them: "Frankly, I think the press is very stupid.
I mean, we fabricated a love story. For me, as a performer and actress, of course, we wanted people to believe that we were in love. And we wanted people to feel that love at the Oscars. We wanted it to go through the lens of that camera and every television that was watching it. And we worked hard on it, we worked for days. We broke down the whole thing: it was orchestrated as a performance Actually, when we talked about it, we were like, 'Well, I guess we did a good job!'"
The author of Bad Romance is a great friend of Cooper, who directed the film, and has praised the skills of The actor on the upbringing of Lea De Seine, the daughter he had with Irina Shayk two years ago: "He is a beautiful father." Gaga won the Oscar for Best Original Song for Shallow, and assures that she felt "a lot of pain" watching the trophy, because she had to "relive" tough parts of her career while playing Ally in the film.
"The character of Ally stayed with me for a long time. I had to relive a lot of my career playing that role. I don't know how others feel when they act, but for me, I don't see it as shooting a movie. I shot it as if I lived the character, and it's a moment in my life, so I relived it all over again and it took a long time to go away. When I won the Oscar, I looked at it and a reporter asked me, 'When you look at that Oscar, what do you see?' I said, 'I see a lot of pain.' And I wasn't lying at the time."
