Why Woman Gaga Is Not Performing Regardless of Nomination

Get together foul! Lady Gaga gained’t be performing on the 2023 Oscars regardless of being nominated for her tune in Top Gun: Maverick.

“We now have nice relationships with Woman Gaga and her camp [but] she’s in the midst of capturing a film proper now, and right here we’re honoring the film business and what it takes to make a film,” Oscars producer Glenn Weiss mentioned on Wednesday, March 8, throughout the Oscars Artistic Crew press convention. “After a bunch of backwards and forwards, it didn’t really feel like she will be able to get a efficiency to the caliber that we’re used to along 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 isn’t going to carry out on the present, nevertheless, that is all, from our viewpoint, 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 once we are honoring films.”

Whereas Gaga gained’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! Penning this tune for the movie Top Gun: Maverick was a deep and highly effective expertise that I’ll always remember,” the songstress wrote via 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 large like to little monsters!”

The next month, Gaga gave followers the first 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 “Dangerous Romance” singer as soon as once more teased her newest movie undertaking 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 performed an electrifying rendition of “Shallow” alongside Bradley Cooper. That very same yr, the New York native took dwelling the Academy Award for Greatest Unique Music for the A Star Is Born monitor.

The costars, who have been each nominated for his or her respective roles as Ally and Jack, turned heads throughout the awards present as they took the audience 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 pal and inventive genius,” the “Poker Face” songstress wrote via Twitter in February 2019 after inflicting a stir along with her duet.