Director Joseph Kosinski has reservations about Lady Gaga contributing to the soundtrack for the upcoming action film "Top Gun: Maverick."
Gaga, 36, released a ballad titled "Hold My Hand" on Tuesday in support of the action-packed sequel to the 1986 Tom Cruise film "Top Gun."
Kosinski, 48, recently admitted that he was hesitant to include the track in the project, thinking it is likely to suck.
"It was nerve-wracking to hear that song for the first time," Kosinski told Insider, adding that he heard a demo of the track, while producer Jerry Bruckheimer was beside him. "We went over to the record label [offices], and you're almost afraid you're not going to like it, because how do you say 'No thank you' to Lady Gaga?" the filmmaker explained.
Their spirits, on the other hand, quickly soared like an F-14 Tomcat fighter jet. They said that even if I was in a demo form, they already thought it was so classic, so incredible.
The singer of "Chromatica" is a fan of "Top Gun," and Kosinski and Bruckheimer, 78, knew they wanted her song to be included. Hans Zimmer, the film's composer, also fell in love with the single, he revealed.
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"When Hans heard it he was like, 'I can use this as a theme for the movie,'" the "Only the Brave" director went on. "He worked it into his orchestral score. So it's much more than just a song in the movie. It's all over the theme of the film."
Last week, when she announced the song's debut on Instagram, Gaga opened everything about her composition process. She revealed that when she composed this song for "Top Gun: Maverick," she had no idea the depths it reached into the film's heart, her own psyche, and the nature of the world we've been living in.
The "House of Gucci" star explained that she devoted years to polishing the song so that it will become perfect and not just hers, but the whole world's.
"I've been working on it for years, perfecting it, trying to make it ours. I wanted to make music into a song where we share our deep need to both be understood and try to understand each other-a longing to be close when we feel so far away and an ability to celebrate life's heroes," she continued.
Gaga then expressed gratitude to the "Mission: Impossible" actor, Kosinski, and Zimmer for the chance and "wonderful experience" of collaborating with the trio.
She said the song is a love letter to the world in the midst of and following a really difficult moment and she had been anticipating the time that everyone gets to hear it.
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