Why Lady Gaga Is Not Performing Despite Nomination

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Occasion foul! Woman Gaga received’t be performing on the 2023 Oscars regardless of being nominated for her tune in Prime Gun: Maverick.

“Now we have nice relationships with Woman Gaga and her camp [but] she’s in the course of taking pictures a film proper now, and right here we’re honoring the film trade and what it takes to make a film,” Oscars producer Glenn Weiss mentioned on Wednesday, March 8, in the course of the Oscars Inventive Staff press convention. “After a bunch of forwards and backwards, it didn’t really feel like she will get a efficiency to the caliber that we’re used to together with her, that she’s used to and all that stuff.”

The 36-year-old Grammy winner, who earned a 2023 Oscar nod for “Maintain My Hand,” is at the moment engaged on the Joker sequel, Folie à Deux, and is due to this fact unavailable for the Sunday, March 12, occasion.

“She will not be going to carry out on the present, nevertheless, that is all, from our perspective, about somebody making a film,” Weiss additional defined on Wednesday. “And us [being] utterly understanding that that’s what’s precedence on this enterprise, particularly after we are honoring motion pictures.”

Whereas Gaga received’t be taking the stage on Sunday, she beforehand spoke out about what an honor it’s to be nominated for her fourth Academy Award.

“Thanks a lot to the Academy for nominating my tune ‘Maintain My Hand’ for an Oscar this yr! Scripting this tune for the movie Prime Gun: Maverick was a deep and highly effective expertise that I’ll always remember,” the songstress wrote by way of Instagram in January about her monitor with BloodPop. “So grateful for the magic of music and cinema. Love you my co-writer @bloodpop I’m on set filming now huge like to little monsters!”

The next month, Gaga gave followers the primary take a look at her in character as Harley Quinn alongside Joaquin Phoenix who’s reprising his function because the Joker within the 2024 sequel. Earlier this month, the “Unhealthy Romance” singer as soon as once more teased her newest movie mission whereas hanging out on set.

“🖤🖤🖤📽️,” the musician captioned a selfie on Sunday, March 5.

Followers final noticed Gaga take the Oscars stage in 2019 when she carried out an electrifying rendition of “Shallow” alongside Bradley Cooper. That very same yr, the New York native took house the Academy Award for Greatest Authentic Tune for the A Star Is Born monitor.

Lady Gaga Is Not Performing at the 2023 Oscars Despite Being Nominated for ‘Top Gun- Maverick’ Song - 465 Academy Awards 2019, Los Angeles, California, United States - 25 Feb 2019
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The costars, who have been each nominated for his or her respective roles as Ally and Jack, turned heads in the course of the awards present as they took the viewers on an intimate journey. Amid the efficiency, Cooper, 48, walked over to Gaga and sat beside her on the piano earlier than nestling his head in her neck.

“Nothing may very well be extra particular than sharing this second on the Oscars with a real buddy and inventive genius,” the “Poker Face” songstress wrote via Twitter in February 2019 after inflicting a stir together with her duet.