Bradley Cooper

Remember that show on MTV?

And so I just, you know, little by little, immersed myself into that world, and I just became fascinated with the culture.

And then Zach Galifianakis, who I met, like, in 2001, way before Hangover, I used to go and watch him do stuff.

And I just love the culture.

And when Will was telling me about this, I was like, oh, let's set it in New York and the cellar.

Because I just love the geography of the cellar, too, that you go in the olive tree and you walk down into this place.

It's this whole other world.

And it just felt like, yeah, I really went like, can we pull this off where it's authentic, where you're watching it at home and you get a sense of the fact that you're singing.

You know you feel like it got it.

You know within the striking distance makes me really happy.

Yeah, of course.

I'm like, you killed it.

Isn't she great in the movie?

She's great.

She's so natural.

I mean, the minute I started shooting her and I was like, oh, wait a second.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was like, and the first thing I had shot where there was one of her, one of her sets and I was just up there with the camera and I came around and her profile and actually I felt like I was in the Star is Born.

She looked a lot like Gaga and Ally, like singing Shallow.