There's something electrifying about the first time Bradley Cooper [1]'s Jackson sets eyes on Lady Gaga [2]'s Ally in A Star Is Born [3]. The characters share a deep and immediate connection, and it turns out that's what happened for the actors in real life [4], as well.

Bradley explained to The New York Times that he met Gaga after seeing her perform [5] the same song that Jackson first sees Ally sing in the movie: Édith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose." [6] (Though, rather than a drag bar [7], the stars were at a charity event.) "My mind was blown," he admitted the Times.

The feeling was mutual, as Gaga told Stephen Colbert [8] in a recent interview.

"I sang the night before I met him at an event for cancer thrown by Sean Parker, and I was singing 'La Vie en Rose' — I was doing a jazz set that evening," she said. "Bradley just happened to be in the audience, and I got a phone call that he wanted to meet me the next day, and he came to my house. I was like, 'Oh my god, what's going on.' He came into the home and I looked into his eyes and I just felt an instant connection with him. He made me feel so comfortable."

Bradley, who had been trying to find the right actor for his A Star Is Born remake, noticed the piano in the living room of her Malibu home. The two sang "Midnight Special" by Creedence Clearwater Revival [9] together, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Good luck trying not to cry while thinking about that during the movie.