Lady Gagastopped to help a photographer who fell on the Oscars 2023 red carpet on Sunday night.
Gaga, who is nominated for Best Original Song for herTop Gun: Mavericktune “Hold My Hand,” was originally not expected to perform during the broadcast due to a scheduling conflict as she films theJokersequel.
Oscars showrunner Glenn Weiss said Wednesday during theOscars Creative Team press conference, “We have great relationships withLady Gagaand her camp [but] she’s in the middle of shooting a movie right now, and here we are honoring the movie industry and what it takes to make a movie. After a bunch of back and forth, it didn’t feel like she can get a performance to the caliber that we’re used to with her, that she’s used to and all that stuff.”
Weiss continued: “So she is not going to perform on the show, however, this is all, from our point of view, about someone making a movie and us completely understanding that that’s what is priority in this business, especially when we are honoring movies.”
However, multiple outlets reported hours before the event that Gagawould indeed perform.
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Last May,Tom CruisecommendedGaga’s work on theTop Gunsequeland revealed she “helped compose the score.” Cruise explained at the time that Gaga presented her song to him andHans Zimmer, who also composed the music for the film.
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“It just opened up the whole movie. She’s amazing,” Cruise, 60, said at the time. “It just opened those doors to the emotional core of the film that we had … in that moment, things just came together in such a beautiful way. Her song that she’d written just fell right in and became, really, the underlying score andthe heartbeat of our film.”
The Oscarsare airing live on ABC on Sunday, March 12, at 8 p.m. ET.
source: people.com
