Barbra Streisand wishes Beyonce had remade ‘A Star Is Born’, not Lady Gaga

'Look, it was a big success, I can’t argue with success. But I don’t care so much about success as I do about originality,' says Barbra Streisand about the 2018 movie which stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Photo: Handout

Primarily, the 79-year-old singer-actor-director said it was too much like what she and Kris Kristofferson did in the 1970s.

“When I did A Star Is Born, I thought Judy Garland was so great in it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, how am I gonna do this?’” Streisand said in a recent Zoom interview with Australia’s The Sunday Project to promote her new album. “'I have to change it — I’ll become a guitar-playing singer-songwriter, and Kris Kristofferson is already a singer-songwriter, and we’ll change the story a bit'.”