Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper: Thank you. Host: Great to have you. Bradley Cooper: Hey. Host: You're one of the nicest, hardest working people in Hollywood. You're very real. You keep it real.

You've had an arc as an actor that has been impressive, both on, in theater and numbers. Four Academy Award nominations, I believe, BAFTAs and so forth. But you've entered this new realm of directing.

So you've kind of gone from what we would call around here an individual contributor role, the Wow. To a leader, where you have to have a vision, and you need Bradley Cooper: Oh, boy. Host: Inspire people. And then you have budgets, and you've got technology.

Bradley Cooper: So were you a little bit scared going into all this, or how did it all roll out for you? But you're, you're absolutely right. First of all, thank you for having me.

Host: It's such a pleasure to be here. Bradley Cooper: Oh, it's hardship to have you. Oh, really? No, it's kinda.

It's, it's insane. It's insane. And I was able to you were kind enough to invite me to Sicily to the Google camp when we showed the movie, which was really incredible. Host: And everyone was buzzing about it.

Bradley Cooper: That was really great. Host: Very moving. Not a dry eye I heard in the place. Bradley Cooper: My daughter loved it.

Good. Not the movie, but she Host: Sicily. Bradley Cooper: There's a big pool there. Yes. You're so right about budgetary issues, and timing, and and all of that stuff.

But I actually loved all of that. I loved actually having a, you know, dipping my toe in all of those aspects of it. And I think that's because you're right, when you have a vision and you wanna see it through, I would feel very odd if I didn't, if I didn't have a part of the.

It's 'cause that's part of the road, and how wide it is, and how, you know, where the velocity picks up. You wanna have a say in everything because it winds up the finished product is right now belongs to you. So I very much was a part of all of that.

And I couldn't imagine not doing it that way. Host: Anything really surprise you about that process and journey? I've seen so many interviews of the tight cast coming together and saying, "We had a magic experience working as a team, working as a collaborative creative group."

It wasn't so much scripted as enabled Mm. A clear vision of the story, and you're just freeing up Lady Gaga, Dave Chappelle, to play their parts in ways they said they'd never experienced before. And of course, it's Lady Gaga's first film, debut.

Yeah. So. Bradley Cooper: I think it has, I think that's. I've heard them say that. It makes me so happy.

'Cause that's was the goal, to create an environment where as you all know, when you feel safe and you feel motivated, and you also know that you're called upon to bring all of your selves, that that's the environment that you can really thrive. And you go home at night and think, "Oh, wow, that was a really fruitful day."

I think because I've been in this business for 20 years, and I've been around all different types of environments with, in the same setting, I just, you know, I'm a good listener and observer. So I just watched and picked up everything that works for me.

And I just wanted to create an environment which was the culmination of all of the good parts and take all the bad parts out of it. And then hope that in that respect I could get the best out of the people that entrusted themselves to me, quite frankly. 'Cause that was a.

I mean, I just couldn't believe that Lady Gaga took such a huge risk. 'Cause it's a big risk. This isn't one of those projects where you're like, "Well, you know, if it doesn't work out, it'll, you'll be okay."