Bradley Cooper Has a Bizarre Rule on His Movie Sets
Bradley Cooper has a weird rule on his movie sets when he’s in the director’s chair — which revolves around the chair itself. In a conversation with fellow writer, actor, and filmmaker Spike Lee for Variety Thursday (December 14), the Maestro director, co-writer and star revealed that he doesn’t allow chairs on set. Cooper, 48, says he’s “always” hated chairs on sets. “Your energy dips the minute you sit down in a chair. There’s no video village.” He adds he doesn’t watch playback, either. Despite not sitting or watching the playback, Cooper told the Malcolm X director that he “executed exactly my vision” with his latest musical romance film. Cooper plays American conductor Leonard Bernstein and follows his romance with his wife, Costa Rican actress Felicia Montealegre (played by Carey Mulligan).
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His perfect results were due to having “so much time” to think, write, and prepare to act in this movie. Aside from his directing duties, Cooper went to great lengths to resemble the famed musical genius. Bernstein’s eldest daughter Jamie recently told People she and her two other siblings had no idea he would be so intense and committed about something “in his grip.” There were certain moments in the film when the award-winning actor was in motion, looking exactly like their father, that “makes us gasp,” she shared.
Throughout the long process of making the film, Cooper kept in constant contact with Bernstein’s children to ensure he was on track to capture the essence of their father. Last month, Cooper revealed he spent a whopping six years learning how to conduct just over six minutes of music to recreate Bernstein’s conducting of the London Symphony Orchestra at the Ely Cathedral in 1976.
Maestro premiered in select theaters in November and will be available to stream on Netflix on Wednesday, December 20. Watch the trailer below:
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