Bradley Cooper channels Jackson Maine, joins Pearl Jam for 'Maybe It's Time' from “A Star Is Born”

The Oscar-nominee sang with good friend Eddie Vedder at BottleRock Napa Valley.

Serial Oscar-nominee Bradley Cooper is no rock star, he just occasionally plays one in the movies. But this weekend, Cooper got to live out his musician fantasy when he joined Pearl Jam onstage at this year's BottleRock Napa Valley for a duet of "Maybe It's Time" from 2018's A Star Is Born.

Please, would you join me in welcoming to the stage my great, great pal Bradley Cooper," frontman Eddie Vedder announced during the band's headlining set at the annual music festival.

Cooper and Vedder became friends ahead of the production of A Star Is Born, with the actor consulting the legendary rocker on his portrayal of his character, Jackson Maine.

“I went up to Seattle and spent four or five days with him and I asked him 9,000 questions,” Cooper told Yahoo Movies. “And he gave me minor, little things that only musicians know about what to do, just aesthetically and the inner workings.”

While Vedder proved helpful, he initially didn't support Cooper's decision to remake the quintessential Hollywood fable for the fourth time, following versions in 1937, 1954, and 1976.

“He thought it was crazy I was going to do this movie,” Cooper revealed. “He was like, ‘What? Bro, don’t do that.’" But the actor-director had the last laugh, with A Star Is Born garnering eight Oscar nominations, including Best Actor and Best Director for Cooper.

Though not everyone agreed with Cooper's vision, namely Barbra Streisand who, rather correctly, thought the 2018 film was too similar to her 1976 remake. "I don't care so much about success as I do originality," Streisand remarked.

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"Maybe It's Time" — written by Jason Isbell and produced by Cooper and Benjamin Rice with additional vocal production by the film's leading lady Lady Gaga — also became Cooper's first solo entry on the Billboard Hot 100. Vedder covered it for the first time in 2019 at at Tempe, Az.'s Innings Festival before dusting it off with Cooper for BottleRock.

Vedder brought his "great, great pal" out again at the end of the show for an encore to Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World." And this time around, Jackson Maine didn't end his performance by wetting himself — Ally would be so proud.

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