Bradley Cooper performed at Glastonbury to prepare for his role in A Star is Born – but can he play the guitar in real life?

Yes, that’s certainly Bradley Cooper singing because the gravelly-voiced Jackson Maine in A Star is Born… however his guitar playing is a slightly special story.

As properly as directing, co-writing and performing in the film, Cooper took guitar and piano classes for six months to prepare for his function as a rustic rocker.

He also spent four days filming at Glastonbury in 2017, ultimately taking to Pyramid stage and acting along Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and Kris Kristofferson, who performed Cooper’s man or woman within the 1976 model of A Star is Born.

Bradley Cooper at Glastonbury Festival 2017
Bradley Cooper at Glastonbury Festival 2017. Picture: Getty
Although Cooper found out to play the guitar to a respectable level, the sound of Jackson Maine’s guitar gambling inside the film is furnished by using another musician.

Lukas Nelson, the son of united states singer Willie Nelson and an performed musician and composer in his own proper, dubbed all of Cooper’s guitar traces.

Nelson joked approximately Cooper’s guitar playing abilities in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, giving them a ‘five or a six’ out of ten, which Cooper said changed into ‘generous’.

Bradley Cooper and Lukas Nelson attend 'A Star Is Born' Premiere
Bradley Cooper and Lukas Nelson attend 'A Star Is Born' Premiere. Picture: Getty
Cooper has said he owes quite a few his musical self assurance to his co-big name Lady Gaga, who performs up-and-coming singer Ally.

He told Variety: “Because she’s so confident and supportive I felt pretty cozy once I were given there. It gave me the heart to exit. We went to Glastonbury and got on level in front of 80,000 humans and at Stagecoach.

“[Lukas Nelson’s] father changed into kind enough to let us come on his set, Willie Nelson. It become nuts, man. As a kid you always dream of being a rock superstar, so, to faux to be became quite cool.”