A Star is Born might not have won the Best Picture Oscar, but its stars did win a whole lot of love from fans everywhere. The
A Star is Born might not have won the Best Picture Oscar, but its stars did win a whole lot of love from fans everywhere. The «Shallow» duet was the Oscars performance that launched a million memes and made even more hearts melt, as the audience got to soak in the stars’ near-tangible chemistry. But, while what the audience saw on stage was amazing, these photos of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper backstage at the Oscars are even better.
The chemistry between Gaga and Cooper was palpable from the moment they began their performance by quietly rising from their seats in the audience and ascending the stage hand in hand. Gaga sat at the piano while Cooper crooned opposite her, until midway through the song when he joined her on the piano bench. They sang cheek to cheek and ended the song by gazing into each other’s eyes. While the couple’s duets in the movie are fraught with dramatic tension (it is a movie, after all, and the characters have their fair share of relationship issues), the real-life Oscars duet between Gaga and Cooper was filled with pure warm and fuzzy feelings.
