During his Variety Actors on Actors conversation with Glenn Close, Sam Elliott dished on the first table read of “A Star Is Born” with Lady Gaga.“I’ve loved her from afar,” Elliott said.
“She was just kind of this regular girl on some level, this Stefanie,” he said.
“She was stunning to work with.”Elliott described a moment at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles after a long day and shooting in the hot sun.
“It was all her Little Monsters, her fanbase that followed her religiously.
They were the extras in the crowd,” he said, remembering how morale had begun to dwindle as the sun went down and it got chillier.“She just came out of nowhere and sat down at the piano and started singing,” he said of Gaga.
“Everybody just stopped.
It was just magical.”He also discussed he and Gaga’s implicit trust in Cooper’s vision for the film.
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