Something sweet to sing about! Eve gave birth to her and husband Maximillion Cooper’s first child together on February 1.
26.01.2022 - 21:33 / usmagazine.com
Crisis averted. Bradley Cooper revealed that he previously considered saying goodbye to acting — until an offer to star in Licorice Pizza changed his mind.
“The reason that I didn’t give up acting is Paul Thomas Anderson,” Cooper, 47, told Mahershala Ali during an interview for Variety‘s Actors on Actors on Tuesday, January 25. “When he called me to maybe be in his movie, Mahershala, I mean really, I think I’d open up a door in his movie. I’d do anything.”
Anderson, 51, directed the coming-of-age film, in which Cooper, 47, plays Jon Peters. The critically acclaimed movie — which also features Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman and Sean Penn — was shot during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
“We broke from [filming] Nightmare Alley, I was able to grow a beard and Searchlight was praying that I didn’t get COVID, because we had to go back and continue Nightmare Alley, but I was like, ‘There’s no way I’m not doing it.’ That was the first movie back from COVID,” the Academy Award nominee added. “And Jon Peters was the beginning of the movie, so I started with everybody else, which was wonderful, rather than coming in when everybody’s already downriver. I spent three and a half weeks with Paul. I watched all the camera tests. He was teaching me all about lenses, things I never knew. He’s incredible.”
Even though the Pennsylvania native has been in the business since 1999, he still continues to have plenty of firsts on set. Earlier this month, Cooper opened up about filming his first nude scene for Guillermo del Toro‘s Nightmare Alley.
“I remember reading in the script and thinking, ‘He’s a pickled punk in that bathtub and it’s to story. You have to do it,'” the A Star Is Born director shared on KCRW‘s The Business, referring to the
Something sweet to sing about! Eve gave birth to her and husband Maximillion Cooper’s first child together on February 1.
the 2022 Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning. The announcement was a spectacular school-marm-like repudiation of the popular kids. Here’s who’s in detention.Gaga certainly assumed she’d be included in the Best Actress roster for “House of Gucci” alongside Oscars Terminator Olivia Colman (“The Lost Daughter”), Nicole Kidman (“Being the Ricardos”), Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”) and Penelope Cruz (“Parallel Mothers”).
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Subtle but effect. Suki Waterhouse shaded Bradley Cooper after their breakup almost seven years ago. Waterhouse and Cooper dated from 2013 to 2015 when she was 23 and he was 40.
Subtle shade. While celebrating her latest single, Suki Waterhouse got honest about the subject that inspired the “Melrose Meltdown” lyrics.
Suki Waterhouse, 30, hinted that she may have been dropping some subtle shade at her ex Bradley Cooper, 47, in a now-deleted TikTok video. The singer had posted a video with a trendy filter that adds a five o’clock shadow and a septum piercing to the photo, and one fan commented that she looked like Bradley. She quipped about getting her heartbroken, and seemed to confirm it was the Silver Linings Playbook star when a fan commented that she looked just like him!
Suki Waterhouse posted (and deleted) a TikTok video that some fans believe was throwing shade at her ex boyfriend Bradley Cooper.
Suki Waterhouse seems to have made a rare mention about her ex Bradley Cooper.
Bradley Cooper is opening up about his acting career in Hollywood, revealing he was very close to give up and retire in 2020, luckily he changed his mind after he was offered an interesting role.The 47-year-old actor talked about his difficult decision during a new edition of Actors on Actors, in which he was interviewed alongside Mahershala Ali for Variety.Bradley admitted it was director Paul Thomas who made him change his mind, after he was offered a role in his movie Licorice Pizza. This was the actor’s first involvement in movies after the pandemic caused many productions in Hollywood to stop, accepting the role and starting filming in August 2020.“The reason that I didn’t give up acting is Paul Thomas Anderson.
Bradley Cooper has been skipping the audition process for films. The star recently spoke with fellow actor Mahershala Ali fors «Actors on Actors» series and revealed the last time he actually had to audition.“Last time I auditioned was ,” he told Ali. “I put myself on tape with my buddy Wes to play Satan, and we were going to do it. This was 2012, I think.
Bradley Cooper has opened up about how Paul Thomas Anderson convinced him to carry on acting.Speaking during Variety’s recent Actors on Actors feature, Cooper revealed that he almost gave up on the profession until Anderson invited him to work on Licorice Pizza.“The reason that I didn’t give up acting is Paul Thomas Anderson,” he said. “When he called me to, maybe, be in his movie, Mahershala, I mean really, I think I’d open up a door in his movie.
Bradley Cooper was very close to giving up his acting career in 2020 and he’s opening up about why he changed his mind.
Once actors hit a certain level of stardom, they no longer have to audition for roles as producers and directors seek to entice them to join their projects.
Many high profile actors no longer audition for films and are just offered roles based on their past performances and choices made by directors and studios.