Not evenBradley Cooperis above a little stage fright.
The actor, who was up for three Oscars at the 91st Academy Awards forA Star Is Born, impressed the crowd with an intimate performance of “Shallow” with costarLady Gaga– but not before receiving a word of advice fromJennifer Lopez.
“He seemed a little nervous,” Lopez revealed in anInstagram Livewith boyfriend Alex Rodriguez Sunday night. “I just whispered, I said, ‘The song is so beautiful. When they hear the first few notes, they’re going to start applauding. So don’t worry. Just deliver the song.’ He was like, ‘I got it, I got it, okay.’”
Lopez, who was on hand at the ceremony to present alongsideChris Evans, gushed over the pair’s “amazingly beautiful, intimate performance” and said it was “so special” to have a front-row seat to the magic.
TheWorld of Dancejudge, 49, added that she thought the night’s toughest category was Best Actor, which eventually went toBohemian Rhapsody’s Rami Malek.
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“Anyone could have won and it would have been like, ‘Oh yeah, of course,’” she said.
“Shallow” went on to win the trophy for Best Original Song, earning Gaga her first Oscar, though Cooper, 44, went home empty-handed.
Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper.ABC
Just as Lopez did for Cooper, Gaga said he offered her anencouraging messageof his own before they took the stage together.
“One of the hardest things in life is to be brave enough to be yourself. I wish to everyone that is going to that celebration to feel a joy inside of them,” she recalled to reporters. “That’s actually what Bradley said to me yesterday, right before we did our last rehearsal for this performance of ‘Shallow.’ He said, ‘Let’s just drop a little bit of joy.’ And I said, ‘Okay.’ And turns out, joy did a whole lot for me.”
Lady Gaga accepting the Oscar for Best Original Song.Kevin Winter/Getty
“I think he had a specific vision. I heardLady Gagatalking about it, so I think it was his thing,” Ronson said. “That probably might be the only time they ever perform that song together so it made it feel really special.”
source: people.com
