Was Jack White almost Jackson Maine? According to Variety , the former White Stripes frontman was briefly considered to star in the hit film A Star Is Born .
As director Bradley Cooper tells the magazine, he wanted another person to star in the movie before he eventually took the role of Jackson, a fading music icon struggling with substance abuse.
"I saw this other person that I wanted to do this, who is an actual musician," Cooper says. "But [the studio] wouldn't make the movie with him." Cooper did not reveal who that person was, but Variety quotes a source saying he had met with White.
Variety also notes that these casting talks took place before Lady Gaga came on board to play Ally, a young musician whom Cooper's Jackson takes under his wing, leading to drama and romance.
White has had a few film roles, including a memorable cameo in 2007's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story as Elvis Presley .
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