Entertainment Awards Shows and Events Premieres Lady Gaga Is Unrecognizable Alongside Bradley Cooper in First 'A Star Is Born' Trailer Lady Gaga stars alongside Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born -- and looks completely unrecognizable By Ale Russian Ale Russian Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has appeared in Women's World, First For Women, Biography.com and the Chicago Sun-Times. People Editorial Guidelines Published on June 6, 2018 12:59PM EDT Lady Gaga is ready for her big screen debut! The musician stars alongside Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born — a remake of the 1976 film starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. Gaga plays an aspiring singer whose career begins to take off after she meets Cooper’s washed up country singer Jackson Maine. The first trailer offers a hint of the drama to come in the film, but mainly focuses on how Cooper and Gaga’s characters meet and her reluctance to want to be on stage. “I don’t sing my own songs. I just don’t feel comfortable,” Gaga tells Cooper. “Almost every single person has told me they like the way I sounded but they didn’t like the way I look.” When Cooper replies by telling her “I think you’re beautiful,” the trailer shows them falling in love and Cooper eventually encouraging Gaga to overcome her fears of performing. The movie also marks Cooper’s directorial debut and features the actor singing live. A portion of the film was shot during Coachella in 2017. Watch the full season of Search History on PeopleTV.com or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite device. “It all came down to this broken love story, and there’s no better way to express that than through singing because there’s nowhere to hide when you’re singing. Your whole body is electrified,” Cooper told Entertainment Weekly of the film in December. “That was the initial igniter of the passion for me.” A Star Is Born opens October 5.