Barbra Streisand SLAMS Bradley Cooper’s redo of her 1976 film A Star Is Born saying it should have starred Beyonce and Will Smith: ‘It was the wrong idea’
Barbra Streisand has criticized the 2018 film A Star Is Born with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.
The 79-year-old singer said during Sunday’s episode of Australian talk series The Sunday Project she thought the film ‘was the wrong idea.’
The icon seems to have a sense of ownership over the story after starring with Kris Kristofferson in the 1976 version of A Star Is Born, which first made in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March then remade with Judy Garland and James Mason in 1954.
Not for her: Barbra Streisand has criticized the 2018 film A Star Is Born with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
No thanks: The 79-year-old singer said during Sunday’s episode of Australian talk series The Sunday Project she thought the film ‘was the wrong idea’
The story line is fairly basic: a seasoned star helps out a younger one who eclipses him.
But Babs – her nickname – was not happy with Cooper, who not only starred in the 2018 version but also directed it, and the direction he took.
At first she had given her praise to the film when she visited the set.
But when the movie came out she bickered it was much too similar to the film she made in 1976.
And on Monday Streisand was at it again as she carped that she really wanted Beyonce and Will Smith as the stars, not Gaga and Cooper.
You copied us: The icon seems to have a sense of ownership over the story after starring with Kris Kristofferson in the 1976 version of A Star Is Born
The sang well together: Kristofferson and Streisand on stage together for the film
‘At first, when I heard it was going to be done again, it was supposed to be Will Smith and Beyoncé, and I thought, that’s interesting,’ said the legend.
‘Really make it different again, different kind of music, integrated actors, I thought that was a great idea.
‘So, I was surprised when I saw how alike it was to the version that I did in 1976,’ she added, which is what she said in 2018 after the film came out.
She also said he ‘can’t argue with success’ after the film grossed $436 million worldwide and the film’s song Shallows won an Oscar.
The original: A Star Is Born was first made in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March
‘I don’t care so much about success as I do originality,’ added The Way We Were actress.
In 2018 all seemed kosher when Bradley and Gaga were promoting their version of A Star Is Born.
‘She gave us a blessing. Everybody was so excited she was there. We just looked at each other and were like, “Wow. How are we here right now?”‘ he said.
Gaga added, ‘She was so, so kind.’
In 2018, however, Barbra took a dig at the film which sounds like what she shared on Sunday.
Another A Star Is Born: Then it was remade with Judy Garland and James Mason in 1954
The star told Variety: ‘I thought when it was going to be done [with Beyoncé] it was going to be very different and have a multiracial cast, and the music was going to be rap. But it’s more like the movie I made.’
This comes after Gaga dropped out of taking Streisand’s Funny Girl role for a Broadway performance. Instead, Beanie Feldstein will take the role.
Last week Babs said she doesn’t want a movie to be made about her until she’s dead.
The Yentl star is currently writing her autobiography and wants fans to read that to learn the truth about her life and admitted she’d get ‘upset’ if a biopic was made while she was still alive as she’d hate there to be any inaccuracies.
She wanted these two: ‘At first, when I heard it was going to be done again, it was supposed to be Will Smith and Beyoncé, and I thought, that’s interesting,’ said the legend
Host Marc Malkin asked his guest on the ‘Just for Variety’ podcast if she’d consider doing ‘a scripted feature along the lines of Elton John’s Rocketman or Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and she replied: ‘After I’m gone. Not while I’m alive. No, no, no, no, no, no.
‘I’d just say, listen to the truth in my book and portray me truthfully, but not while I’m here. I get upset when something’s false or something’s a lie.
‘That’s why I wrote the song, Don’t Lie to Me. I couldn’t help making a video. I probably really lost a lot of people, a lot of fans doing that. But you have to face the truth. I have to face my own truth.
The star and her man: Streisand and husband James Brolin attend the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
‘I have to face what I think is going on in the world. That’s who I am. I just believe in the power of the truth.’
The star previously revealed she has spent the past eight years handwriting her memoir because she never learned how to type.
She said: ‘When I started writing, which is many years ago, I wrote in longhand because I never learned how to type. Because my mother wanted me to become a secretary and type when I was in high school, and I only wanted to be an actress. So, I let my nails grow. So I could never type. And now, believe me, I wish I knew how to type.
‘Now I talk into my QuickVoice app and then I send it to somebody to type. I’m better at remembering all those years ago. I can tell you what I wore I could tell you probably what I ate. I know where I stood when I sang Sweet Forgiveness. I remember that image.’
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