If you're planning on buying a cinema ticket to watch Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's sensational film A Star Is Born this weekend, prepare for some serious tear-shedding.
We're talking Titanic meets The Notebook meets Marley & Me levels of crying.
However, it sounds like Gaga may have shed a tear or two during the making of her co-star's directorial debut, as a result of a 'ban' he enforced on set.
In an interview with the Daily Express following the film's London premiere last week, the singer-turned actress revealed: 'I tried to sneak some make-up in, but Bradley wouldn't go for it.'
'The truth is me and Ally are very different,' she told the publication. 'Ally doesn’t believe in herself. When I was 19 years old I was dragging my piano around all the bars banging on every door to play. Nothing could stop me.
'She’s given up and that's what you see at the beginning of the film. I hope people come to see the film and the journey they go on. It's his love that lifts her up.'
An interview with the stars in the LA Times on the subject of Cooper's make-up 'ban' has widely been criticised on social media. In the article, it was revealed the director reportedly took out a make-up wipe and dragged it down Gaga's face from forehead to chin on set, telling her: 'Completely open. No artifice.'
Despite criticism, Gaga said that it did help her get to grips better with the role.
'It put me right in the place I needed to be, because when my character talks about how ugly she feels — that was real,' she explained. 'I’m so insecure. I like to preach, but I don’t always practice what I preach.'
She added to this sentiment in an interview with the New York Times magazine, explaining that her make-up free look was yet another part of her on-going evolution as an artist:
'I do keep transforming into a new shell of me,' she said.
'So sure, there is an acting component to what I do... but the word "acting", it’s hard for me to talk about in that way, because "acting" to me almost implies faking it.'
Earlier this year, Oscar-nominee Saoirse Ronan opened up to ELLE UK about going make-up free and embracing her acne in her 2017 film Ladybird.
'It's important because that's what happens to people's skin, especially when they're teenagers - they're really stressed out and their hormones are bouncing off the walls,' she said of her role playing a high school student.
'There have been portrayals of teenagers in the past where they've got perfect skin and maybe one spot for 'the zit' scene.'
She added that 'it would've been a missed opportunity' if the crew hadn't seen it as a way of making her character as 'relatable as possible'.
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