Rewatchables Reference

• The Shallow performance – her watching him, him coaxing her out on stage, her reluctance, and then the moment she decides to go for it. The crowd is into it, Cooper is selling it with his supportive boyfriend face, and it's just an incredible three minutes of cinema.
• The cop bar scene – one of the great flirting scenes in movie history. The nose moment, the touching, the weirdness. 'Almost every single person in the music industry told me my nose is too big.' 'Your nose is beautiful.'
• The parking lot scene – him looking at her while she's writing the song in real time. 'I think you might be a songwriter.'
• The grocery store scene – fishing for frozen peas, looking for gauze. Could be in a rom-com. Their chemistry is incredible.
• The Cooper-Elliott final scene – 'If I was no good, then why did you steal my fucking voice?' Brothers who don't know how to say I love you.
• The Grammy scene – hard to watch but also kind of funny. He doesn't need to pee on himself but it's like they said 'how do we really humiliate this guy?'

• The nose scene – now the go-to movie for anyone self-conscious about their nose. Congratulations.
• The Sam Elliott meme with the tiara – going to go on for as long as we have memes.
• The soundtrack – rare that both characters' songs are pretty good. Jason Isbell's 'Maybe It's Time,' 'I'll Always Remember Us This Way,' and of course Shallow.
• The ending – didn't totally work on first viewing but gets better every time. The way it cuts between her performing and him creating the song.

• The second hour is a grind compared to the first – 'all right, we get it, she's becoming a pop star.'
• The Dave Chappelle scene feels underwritten – he's really good but the material doesn't stand up to his performance. They basically get bullied into getting married by Dave Chappelle.
• The 'Why Did You Do That' pop song – intentionally bad or just bad? The hosts can't decide. Either way, the musical orthodoxy of the movie is unclear.
• The method of suicide is tough to watch – Sean argues it has to happen for the movie's themes to work, but Bill questions whether it needed to be so explicit.

• Remake talks began in 2011 with Beyonce starring and Clint Eastwood directing – she became pregnant with Blue Ivy and the project stalled for years.
• In 2015 it was briefly Cooper and Beyonce. The hosts debate whether Beyonce can act – Amanda diplomatically declines to weigh in.
• Various actors approached to co-star including Christian Bale, Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, and Tom Cruise. Bill cannot think of a bigger travesty than Tom Cruise as Jackson Maine.
• Andrew Dice Clay selected over Robert De Niro, John Turturro, and John Travolta for the father role. Sean is flabbergasted: 'No one called Bob De Niro and said Bob, it's gonna be Dice Man.'
• Ray Liotta almost joined as Jackson's manager but they decided to cut the part.

• Andrew Dice Clay – the biggest heat check with the smallest amount of screen time. You know exactly who he is the moment he appears.
• Runners-up: Sam Elliott, Jackson's dog Charlie.
• Alec Baldwin gets a mention for his introduction of Ally at the awards show.

• Anthony Ramos – Ally's gay best friend from Hamilton. 'What's an algorithm?' 'It's like a beat. Yeah, like in music.'
• Ron Rifkin – the old guy in rehab. Both Rifkin and Greg Grunberg (the driver) were Cooper's co-stars on Alias, which was his big break.

Rez Gavron (Rafi Gavron) – Ally's slimy manager. A Billy Zane-type part where you know he's no good the moment you see him. The final confrontation with Cooper where he says 'you're ruining her career' is mustache-twirling villainy.

• Opening scenes shot at Coachella. The cop bar is the Short Stop in Echo Park. The blue drag bar is the Virgil in East Hollywood.
• Jackson Maine's house sold for $4.2 million in 2017 in the Mountaingate neighborhood of Calabasas – 'every time you're in the garage you're just scared.'
• Cooper underwent a full body spray tan every day. Lady Gaga wore only lip balm and moisturizer (allegedly).
• Cooper ad-libbed the 'you're ugly' scene. Lady Gaga didn't know it was coming and her upset reaction was genuine.
• The majority of the drag queen scenes were unscripted and improvised.
• A billboard with Ford nooses is displayed next to Jackson's head early in the film, foreshadowing the ending.

• Bradley Cooper – 1000%. The star-director combo is always impressive, and even part of the victory is that it's a big gamble that paid off.
• Lady Gaga – tentative yes. She was already a world-historical pop star, but if she wins the Oscar it's definitely yes.

• The geography of the opening doesn't make sense – he plays at Coachella (outside Palm Springs) but somehow ends up at a bar in East Hollywood. The limo driver says they're an hour and forty minutes away.
• The Shallow performance – she sings two separate pieces of a song perfectly with no rehearsal. He arranged it in his head while drunk. 'This guy can't even buy potato chips.'
• The missing hours between the parking lot (nighttime) and when he drops her off (full daylight, 7:30am). What happened in those hours?

Bradley Cooper unanimously. As an actor it's equal with Lady Gaga, but he also directed, conceived, and fought for Lady Gaga's casting. The star-director combo at this level on your first try is incredibly impressive.

• Why didn't Bradley Cooper ever admit he's doing an Eddie Vedder impersonation? He lists all these other influences but spent time with Vedder and basically stole his whole act.
• How big of a deal would it be if Jackson Maine pissed himself at the Grammys in real life? The hosts break down the five-day news cycle: day one is the emergency podcast, day two is 'should we be making fun of addiction,' day five is he's in treatment and it's the Jennifer Garner fast food photos.

No – it would just be a different thing entirely. This story works as a movie.