Bradley Cooper has named the scariest thing he's ever done in his career.
The actor has starred in some major productions over the years like The Hangover, Wedding Crashers, Limitless, American Hustle, Nightmare Alley, A Star is Born and American Sniper.
He has undergone military training and sang in front of a live audience, but he says conducting the London Symphony Orchestra as part of his performance in Maestro as the thing that made him the most afraid.
"The scariest thing I've ever done," he told the New York Times.
"This movie, I made absolutely fearlessly. And I knew I had to because that's a huge element in Bernstein's music."
The biographical drama will focus on the life of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein and his marriage to Felicia Montealegre, played by Carey Mulligan.
There is already controversy surrounding the movie as Cooper became the target of online hate due to the fact he wears a prosthetic nose to play Bernstein. As Cooper is not Jewish, this was seen by some to be antisemitic.
The Anti-Defamation League insisted his portrayal of Bernstein does not fall into the same negative category as historical depictions of Jews in cinema, and Cooper has explained why the nose was used.
"I thought, 'Maybe we don't need to do it.' But it's all about balance, and, you know, my lips are nothing like Lenny's, and my chin. And so we had that, and it just didn't look right (without the prosthetic)," he told CBS.
"The truth is... I'd done this whole process out of love, and it's so clear to me where I come from.
"By the time he's older, it's the whole face (that had prosthetics), so we just had to do it. Otherwise, I wouldn't believe he was a human being."
The official premise of Maestro:
'Legendary Broadway composer Leonard Bernstein, best known for his work in West Side Story, meets Felicia at a party in the year 1946. Their love journey is followed over 30 years and his professional life is also examined. Their marriage resulted in the children Jamie, Alexander and Nina.'
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Maestro
Documentary / Music
2003 • 89 minutes
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