Lady Gaga moves on the red carpet "A star is born" – Variety

"A Star Is Born," who performed at the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday, follows Lady Gaga as Ally, an unknown singer-songwriter who meets Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper), an established musician who becomes the mentor of Ally and help her career. starts to take off.

Lady Gaga said VarietyMarc Malkin on the carpet for the first time that she acknowledges in part to Ally.

"I see myself so much when I was younger, when I did not believe in myself, when I was bullied at school, I felt ugly, and my only way out was the music and that 's why I started singing because I wanted to escape all that pain, "Gaga said. "The little Stefani right now, she is very humiliated and she is very surprised."

In the film, Ally must learn to navigate her career as she begins to flourish, and Gaga said she felt compelled to respond to people's expectations when she became famous, but she has always remained true to herself.

"I always went back on her head," she said. "If they wanted me to be sexy, I wanted to look weird. I've always wanted to define what it meant to be me and I always had something to say and I always assured myself that no one would get in my way when I wanted to say it.

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"Ally reviews these things as well as she navigates her career," she continued, "and it was very important to me that this character be completely different from me. I hope the message of love between them and believe in someone … One hundred people could be in a room and 99 do not believe in you, but we believe and that can change any your life and Jackson believes in Ally and her belief in her changes her life. "

The singer of "Million Reasons" said that at the beginning of his meeting with Cooper, he came to her house and the two sang together.

"I heard her incredible voice instantly and I just stopped in my path. I said, "You have a voice that comes from your soul and you know how to tell a story," Gaga said. "And we signed a contract that day. It was like, I believe in you, you are an actress; I believe in you, you are a musician. And we shook hands on it.

She expressed her pride in Cooper's transformation into a director, explaining that "when an artist goes from one media to another and that there are years and years of talent for this new media, I think it's still an explosion. "

"A star is born" arrives in theaters on October 5th.