Eric Roth on ASIB Screenplay, Praises Gaga

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Even though “A Star Is Born” is a work of fiction, its legacy reaches back further than any of its fact-based competitors as the fourth iteration of what has become a timeless Hollywood love story. Despite his own anxieties about reimagining the iconic music drama, Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth worked with Will Fetters and co-screenwriter and director Bradley Cooper to breathe new life into a tale almost as old as the industry itself while staying true to its origins.

“I was actually a little bit afraid of it, because it had been done so many times,” Roth says. “But in concert with Bradley we got a script ready and thought eventually there’s a modern way to do this.

“He had a great sort of first-person look thing, so you felt like you were on the stage with the performers, and it had much more of an immediacy to it. And then there was the undeniable quality of the eternal love story and the tragic ending.”

In the film’s professional dialectic, much less romantic entanglement, between declining singer-songwriter Jackson Maine (Cooper) and ingenue Ally (Lady Gaga), Roth says the biggest challenge was painting an emotionally honest portrait of a modern music career without betraying the iconography of the film’s real-life pop star.

“We wanted to show that she was potentially uncomfortable with being outside of her comfort zone, but Lady Gaga knows very well that world so it would be slightly unbelievable if she was not very good at it,” he says. “So it was an interesting mix of what you could do with the things that she knows how to do and she does quite well. She has that voice from God, this woman, and she’s just such an incredibly talented and great person.”

https://variety.com/2019/film/spotlight/math-marries-reality-screenplay-noms-vice-star-is-born-green-book-1203131816/

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