Jamie Chung will never forget this “awkward” AF moment!
17.01.2022 - 23:05 / usmagazine.com
Baring it all. Bradley Cooper opened up in a new interview about going full-frontal in a nude scene for his upcoming film, Nightmare Alley.
The actor, 47, admitted that it was a “big deal” for him to film his first nude scene in Guillermo del Toro‘s next project. “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,'” Cooper recalled while with the KCRW show The Business in an episode released on Monday, January 17.
The Oscar nominee added that there was “nothing gratuitous” about the scene, which helped him agree to film it. “Because the content of what the movie is, what we were exploring, in order to do it in a real way, it demanded that we’d be naked emotionally and soulfully,” Cooper explained.
A remake of the 1940s noir of the same name, Nightmare Alley centers on Cooper’s character, Stanton Carlisle, a former carnival worker who uses his skills to present himself as a mentalist. The psychological thriller required Cooper to strip down and sit in a bathtub during a steamy scene opposite Toni Collette.
Though he was OK with the nudity in theory, Cooper revealed that it was difficult to actually shed his clothes in front of Collette, 49. “I can still remember that day just to be naked in front of the crew for six hours, and it was Toni Collette’s first day,” he said. “It was just like, ‘Whoa.’ It was pretty heavy.”
Filming on Nightmare Alley was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, which forced the cast and crew to take a six-month break in the middle of production. “We have been making Nightmare Alley for the last two and a half years,” Cooper said at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2021. “It was a unique experience, going through the pandemic,
Jamie Chung will never forget this “awkward” AF moment!
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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.
Crisis averted. Bradley Cooper revealed that he previously considered saying goodbye to acting — until an offer to star in Licorice Pizza changed his mind.
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.
Zack Sharf Bradley Cooper earned rave reviews for his lead performance in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley,” but the eight-time Oscar nominee was not necessarily the director’s first choice for the job. It was Leonardo DiCaprio, who del Toro originally cast in the role of Stanton Carlisle, a drifter and con artist who rises from lowly carnival worker to a renowned mentalist.
Zack Sharf Bradley Cooper confirmed during a conversation with Mahershala Ali as part of Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, presented by Amazon Studios, that “Maestro” will finally start filming this May. Netflix’s “Maestro” marks Cooper’s first directorial effort since the blockbuster success of his feature debut, “A Star Is Born.” Cooper also stars in “Maestro” as esteemed Broadway composer Leonard Bernstein, with Carey Mulligan on board to play Bernstein’s wife, Felicia Montealegre.“I wanted to be a conductor since I was a kid,” Cooper told Ali about the new film.
Bradley Cooper (“Nightmare Alley,” “Licorice Pizza”) and Mahershala Ali (“Swan Song”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.This season, both Bradley Cooper and Mahershala Ali are pulling off a double act. Cooper’s fans can see him in two period pieces: As the lead of “Nightmare Alley,” in which he plays a tormented mentalist desperate for validation in the 1940s traveling-carnival scene, and as a key supporting player in “Licorice Pizza,” in which he’s a deranged version of the producer Jon Peters.