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\"You know what? I don't...We didn't say that, uh, no, but it — it looks an awful lot like that, doesn't it?\" she said in a red carpet interview with ET when shown the photo of Garland in the lookalike dress.
\"It’s so interesting because we hadn’t thought about it but then looking at the dress and looking at the photos side by side, it really was an homage ... but by accident,\" she later told ET.
Garland's daughter, actress Lorna Luft, said Gaga would've had her mother's stamp of approval in playing the role.
\"I think she's so talented, and I think she's so incredibly brilliant and I've been such a fan of hers,\" Luft said at the 2018 Los Angeles premiere of the film.
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\"When I heard about this, I thought this is perfect and my mother would've loved this,\" she added.
The next actress to take on the female leading role in \"A Star Is Born\" was the inimitable Barbra Streisand in the 1976 version of the film, opposite Kris Kristofferson.
She did not receive a Best Actress nomination for her work in the film at the 1977 Academy Awards, but her song, \"Evergreen,\" from the film won for Best Original Song.
Along with Luft, Streisand also approves of the 2018 version of \"A Star Is Born.\"
\"Of course I've seen it,\" she said in an interview with Extra in September 2018. \"I loved it.\"
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\"I think it is wonderful. She is wonderful,\" she continued. \"Bradley told me he spent months with her working to see her real self.\"
\"I call her Stefani,\" she added of Gaga. \"I can't call her Lady Gaga, but I understand why she calls herself Lady Gaga. I understand that person. I think it is great. They're going to have a big hit.\"
She also revealed the advice she gave to Gaga for the role to E! News.
\"I told her to do it live, and she wanted to do it live, so that's good because that's the best way to do it,\" she told the outlet. \"But their songs are different…it's a good movie.\"
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\"It starts like my old movie, with the concert and he goes to a club and finds her,\" she added. \"But they were able to put some new things in it which I liked.\"
Gaga has spoken about her investment in the role in several interviews and praised her co-stars repeatedly throughout awards season.
\"The character of Ally is informed by my life experience,” she told Elle in 2018. \"But I also wanted to make sure that she was not me. It was a cadence of both.”
The 2019 Oscars will air at 8 p.m. Sunday on ABC.
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