Bradley Cooper's directorial debut, 'A Star is Born', arrived at the Oscars with 8 nominations and came out with a winning song. But before all the awards and success, Cooper wanted to sign a specific actor to participate in the recording, and he didn't stop until he got it.
When 'A Star is Born' was released, the film was on everyone's lips. Its success reached all corners of the world and finally left its director Bradley Cooper with an immense number of awards and nominations. The two leading stars fell in love with the rest of the cast with their chemistry, in a register as a singer that was completely new for the actor.
But the actress and singer Lady Gagano was the only signing in which Cooper collaborated, otherwise he wanted a specific person in the film, and he did everything possible to make it so.
The director met comedian Dave Chappelle through Kanye West, and according to Vulture, he traveled to his house in Ohio at a meeting he organizes annually to propose that she appear in his film, although they had met on very few occasions.
Since then, as the comedian says: "Bradley Cooper called me every two days" to convince him to take the opportunity. He finally accepted the role of George 'Noodles' Stone, a close friend of Jackson Maine, whom he had known forever and it became a very emotional role and a relevant support for the character at one point in the action.
The most incredible thing of all? He admits that he mainly did it so that Bradley Cooper would stop insisting on him! He also admitted that "he sent me the script but I never read it, I didn't know it was going to be so good", which agrees with the few days he was on the filming set, since he did not witness the entire recording process. .
Now Chappelle is honored to have participated in Bradley Cooper's first project and also praises his work as a director.
