Bradley Cooper, the most hated man in Hollywood

“Directing is where my brain feels most comfortable,” Bradley Cooper responds when asked about the challenge of directing himself in a film.

His critics will say that such phrases show that he is pretentious and wants to behave like an intellectual. Even when his friend Steven Spielberg is the interviewer and tries to explain to him that what he experiences on set, passing from one side of the camera to the other, is not a schizophrenic process.

It is the second time that he is the director and actor of a film. He just did it Teacherplaying the conductor Leonard Bernstein and he had already done it in 2018 in A Star is Born, alongside Lady Gaga. For both films He was nominated for an Oscar as an actor, but not as a director..

Some argue that this happens to him because he tries too hard to promote himself as a director rather than an actor.

It doesn’t help that in cities like Los Angeles, for example, posters advertising the Netflix film are multiplying on the streets, on buildings and on the sides of buses. So much exposure opens the door for his enemies.

Nobody knows why they criticize him so much.. The guy is talented, he’s good people, the actors he directs can’t stop praising him. Very disciplined, he doesn’t mind taking 6 years to prepare for a role, as in the case of Bernstein Teacherwhere he had to practice a lot to be able to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra live, in a magnificent cathedral.

Bugs Bunny, a witness and the child’s dream

Born in Philadelphia, Bradley Cooper studied art in New York and had a long career in Hollywood. Success came in 2009 with Did it happen yesterday?which would inspire a very entertaining saga of bachelor party films.

Accumulating 12 Oscar nominations at the age of 49 speaks to a very fruitful career and probably also to the frustration of not having been able, until now, to go home with the award.

When he was eight years old, he didn’t want to be an actor, but rather a conductor, and his parents gave him a baton. He loved seeing how Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry used it to make music and that became his obsession.

Over the years he became a fan of Leonard Bernstein and for this reason he did not hesitate to ask Spielberg, executive producer of Teacherto give him the opportunity to direct it.

It would end up focusing more on Lenny’s marriage to a Broadway actress, even though she was bisexual, and the beautiful family they made. The portrait of a complex and fascinating man who also composed the musical History of the West Side (Love without barriers).

The controversies he aroused with the Maestro

First, Bradley Cooper received a lot of criticism for the prosthetic nose that was added to look more like his character, with makeup sessions lasting 3 to 5 hours.

Bernstein’s children were not offended. Furthermore, they made available to Cooper and Carey Mulliganthe actress who plays his mother Felicia and who is also nominated for an Oscar, all her photo archives, the family home and wardrobes full of clothes.

They are even more amazed at how the actor managed to capture his father’s personality and his way of speaking, changing the timbres of his voice as he aged.

Online they accused him of being a “diva” for saying that when he directs he doesn’t like chairs on the set. Mulligan defends him.

Bradley Cooper’s method seems to be to try not to make it obvious that they’re making a movietransforming it almost into a theatrical show, with very few takes.

“He makes films to win awards,” some repeat, as if it were wrong.

His disguised romance with model Gigi Hadid doesn’t help him. Is it envy?

He recently interrupted a virtual interview to go take care of his daughter Lea, who he shares with his ex-partner, model Irina Shayk. A sweet boy who chooses to go to award ceremonies with his mother.