Bradley Cooper should be the proudest Hollywood actor of 2018, his directorial debut "The Birth of a Star" was released and set off a global boom, costing less than 40 million but currently exceeding $400 million at the global box office; the soundtrack co-created by Cooper and the heroine Lady Gaga has sky-high on the US Billboard Albums Chart with a total sales of 230,000.
Stills from the movie "The Birth of a Star"
Cooper single-handedly pushed Lady Gaga to the Golden Globes and the Oscar for Best Actress, and although both eventually missed the Best Actor and Actress awards, the song "Shallow" in the film won the Golden Globes and the Oscar for Best Original Song.
So we found that Cooper, the sexiest male star in Hollywood, not only shines himself, but also shines on the diamonds around him.
Written by/Dojo Arashi
1 He was named the sexiest man of all time, which upset him
Bradley Cooper may not be a traffic-level European and American actor in China, but he is an absolute a-coffee in Hollywood, carrying $350 million at the local box office alone (2014 American Sniper). Between 2013 and 2015, he became one of the world's highest-paid actors, earning $15 million at the time of Hangover 3, and has since been ranked on the Forbes List of Rich Actors several times.
Cooper appeared in gq magazine.
Cooper's affectionate eyes, sunny and healthy skin tone and rich hair have a high degree of recognition, 1.85m height with good body management, so that he has been selected by the media several times as the most attractive and handsome actor, in 2011", "People" magazine directly put him on the cover, titled "the sexiest man in history". He was 36 years old that year, and felt that this honor was too exaggerated and disturbing. Few straight men in the world will be upset by being praised for being handsome and sexy and attractive, and Bradley Cooper is probably the rare "beautiful but not self-aware" straight man, if it were not for his relaxed body management behind the scenes of his transformation over the years, he could have continued to be placed in the shrine of rare protective animals.
As for its cause, which probably needs to go back to childhood, Cooper said that he has never been praised by his neighbors for being handsome and eye-catching. "When I was a kid, people thought of me as a girl, and I did look like a girl because my dear mother never gave me a haircut." When he grew up, his straight male temperament was not affected, but he perfectly avoided all the possibilities of straight male cancer.
Todd Phillips, director who collaborated on the Hangover trilogy, said: "There was a sense of vulnerability in him, very different from the calm and sane Phil [Cooper's character]." In real life, he will bring a rare warmth to those around him. In his forties, he was once described as full of youthful charm.
2 Missed the Oscar for Best Actor, willingly
Bradley Cooper was born into an ordinary family, and making a living in the entertainment industry was not the only option.
When he was five years old, his father took him to see the movie "The Elephant Man", which was a version starring British national treasure actor John Hurt, and Cooper was deeply moved after watching it and fell in love with acting ever since. Parents have always been worried about their son's choice to become an actor and enter the entertainment industry, worried that he will go down the wrong fork in the important life choice. But when the second elder saw Cooper playing the "elephant man" on the stage, they were persuaded and relieved.
It was the 2014 touring version, with Bradley Cooper playing John Merrick, the male protagonist who had suffered from his appearance all his life. The special feature of this version of the stage play is that although John Merrick's character is born with a facial disability, the actors on the stage do not do any special effects makeup, all depending on the actor's performance, all up to the audience's imagination. Critics boast of his success in avoiding every trap of habitually expressing "disability" through external expressions full of soul and passion. The tour earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor.
Cooper, who shined on stage, was a down-to-earth little transparent person on campus in his early years, saying that he was neither the smartest student in the class nor the coolest child on the playground, so he spent his student days so ordinary. He graduated with honors in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in English Literature, when he was both a member of the rowing team and an actor in a nomadic theater, and spoke fluent French.
Also working with Jennifer Lawrence, "The Happy Thread Behind the Clouds" (above) earned Cooper an Oscar nomination, while "Selena" (below), released in 2014, lost a lot.
In 2012, a "Happy Line Behind the Dark Clouds" linked him to the Academy Award for Best Actor, in which he played a middle school teacher who was traumatized by wearing a green hat, and a young woman with a bad life and thorns played by Jennifer Lawrence accidentally formed a pair of joyful enemies, healing each other's heart wounds in the training of verbal battles and dance competitions, and pulling out the dark clouds to find the sunshine of life.
At first, Cooper refused to take the play, he felt that the depth of the role had far exceeded his own, worried that he would not be able to play it well, but director David O. Russell was full of confidence in him and insisted on choosing him. The film eventually doubled box office and earned Cooper 16 nominations for acting awards. In the end, he lost to Daniel Day-Lewis with "Lincoln" at the Oscar for Best Actor, and Cooper lost convincingly, after all, Lewis was one of the actors he most admired.
3 Ten years after his debut, he was transported by "Hangover"
Because of "The Happiness Line Behind the Clouds," the authors of Rolling Stone praised Cooper for always grasping key roles in his career and successfully overcoming challenges at the level of theatrical performance.
Looking at Cooper's resume, it can be found that his vision of film selection is not bad, even if it is not a successful, general response to the film, people have never only scolded the director and other actors, most of them praise him. This kind of audience popularity is also an ability.
Cooper's career in Hollywood began in a 1999 episode of Sex and the City, in which he made a cameo appearance as the heroine Kelly's eye-hunting object, a gentle and gold-filled prodigal son of a night show, and a rare antique sports car. Cooper spent three days specifically learning how to drive the car, only to find that the crew's stand-ins were all found on the set, and only replaced him when he was filmed. He was depressed, but unfortunately there was nowhere to vent at that time.
Stills from the movie "The Hangover"
In the decade since, Cooper has played some small roles in TV series and movies, depressed, and has become the most worried parents. It wasn't until 2009 that a "Hangover" brought him to a turning point in his career and embraced the vast commercial film market ever since. The R-rated comedy set a box office record, with a local box office of $270 million becoming the highest-grossing R-rated comedy in the history of American cinema and an international box office of $460 million. This record was not broken until the later "Deadpool" turned out to be a success.
4 Step into the Hollywood elite
After "The Hangover", the script sent to Cooper's agent's mailbox surged, and his value also rose, giving him the illusion that a carp jumped the dragon gate. But Cooper himself said: "There are more and more opportunities, but it doesn't mean that I'm lying at home on my knees waiting for the script to arrive right under my nose one Monday morning." For me everything is still the same, it's time to audition. Later, "Hangover 2" reached a global box office of $580 million, and "Hangover 3" won $360 million worldwide despite the lack of novelty of the script, and Cooper's salary was already in the figure of 8.
In his early years, Cooper could learn from the scripts he had recently received about the public and the production team's views on his image, but he did not want to spend the rest of his life passively. After his career reached maturity, he began to develop behind the scenes, trying to be a producer and mastering resources. American Sniper is his first concurrent lead actor and producer, directed by Straight American Light Clint Eastwood. Cooper gained 40 pounds and muscles for the film; the film eventually grossed $547 million worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing R-rated film in history, breaking Cooper's own "Hangover" record; and then receiving Oscar nominations for Best Actor, Best Picture and other nominations in the awards season. This success made the audience more convinced of Cooper's expressiveness, and also made Hollywood willing to share more resources and power with him.
He became one of Hollywood's iconic faces as he approached his teenage years. When his father died of lung cancer in 2011, he began funding anti-cancer organizations, using his popularity to help as many families as possible.
5 He "loves" her and shares the same vulnerability
Father-son relationship has also become one of the key topics discussed in "A Star Is Born", and Cooper's career has taken to another level, because he began to work as a director. "I always knew I wanted to be a director, always knew. So the question is how to overcome the fear of achieving this ambition. I used to say to myself, if I don't shoot something out at the age of 40, I'm ashamed. As I realized that I was getting older, the sense of urgency to deliver on my self-commitment grew... People may not understand that this script is already the fourth remake, so why bother? ”
Still, he went firmly, and with his and heroine Lady Gaga's popularity in the literary world, the film has sparked a hot discussion at major international film festivals.
During the awards season, Cooper is accompanied by "them" every time he appears — sharing the same fragile "A Star Is Born" heroine lady lady gaga (above) and his model girlfriend Irina Shayk (below). Photo/Visual China
Cooper's directorial debut still has many technical immaturities, but this does not affect people's enthusiasm for the film, and the love for Cooper, the Golden Globe Award gave him two nominations for best actor and best director at one time, he was also nominated for the Oscar for best actor; the film also has the eternal topic of the person lady gaga, she is very grateful to Cooper for her trust: "I have always wanted to be an actress." 」 You know that in the field, 99 out of 100 people probably don't believe you're going to perform, but it's enough for just 1 person to believe you. That person was Cooper. When we first tried on makeup, Cooper was very adamant about asking me to be all vegetarian, which was too fragile for me, but thanks to his persistence, the audience got to know another me. ”
Every time in an interview, Lady Gaga repeats this one-percent quote, and Cooper always looks at her affectionately and gives her the greatest support with a smile: "I love her deeply because we share the same vulnerability." Based on this resonance, the two A-makers in different fields did not ask for too much remuneration, the cost of this film was only 36 million, while the box office soared all the way to 370 million, and the soundtrack written by the two was even more famous and profitable.
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He once proved himself strong by hitting his head against the wall
Working hard in Hollywood, the career is often not smooth, after all, this is the heart of the world's commercial films, a proper talent-intensive industry, more handsome men and women who work in cafes while auditioning, and return to the group rental house late at night. Around 2000, Cooper first arrived, with no background or connections, and thorns everywhere along the way. It was easy to take a permanent role in "Two-Faced Female Spy", but I didn't expect that after the script of the second season came out, his role was reduced to insignificant soy sauce. Disheartened, Cooper began indulging in alcohol in 2004.
"I once hit my head against a cement wall at a party to show how strong I was, I stood up, blood flowed down the contours of my face, and then I continued to crash into the wall... I spent that night in the hospital, with ice packs waiting for the doctor to stitch up my head. Some time ago, the days ran in front of my eyes like a marquee, and I was too concerned about what others thought of me, who I met, and how to survive today. I felt like an outsider, and my life existed only in my own imagination. In that hospital, I suddenly woke up, and I realized that this would completely fail my potential and frighten me. I just thought it wouldn't work, I'd ruin myself, I was destroying myself. ”
Bradley Cooper didn't die at that party, he woke up at the age of 29. There has been such a life-threatening experience, what movies do not sell well later - "Selena" brings together Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, the most expensive screen partners at the moment, and finally the global box office is in the early 5 million, the loss is very ugly; the word of mouth is not ideal - "Hangover 3" lost the audience's goodwill and there is no sequel, it is a small thing.
Big sweetheart
Don't be "fooled" by the character
There is great uncertainty in the profession of an actor, your appearance can be adjusted, your body can be controlled, and your voice can be disguised, but all this possibility is based on the trust that the producer and director team has in you, which is often the biggest "uncertainty" in the actor's career. You don't know who the competitors are, sometimes you don't even know what the content of your audition is; you don't know if the casting director thinks you're a good fit for the role, sometimes you don't even know if the casting director is seriously considering you; you don't know if Hollywood will offer you other types of opportunities after a character becomes famous, and sometimes you don't even know if a certain type of role that you look like a good fit will be welcomed by the market in the future...
Bradley Cooper came step by step, and he understood the bitterness and bitterness. In the early years, he played a good man in "Two-Faced Female Spy", and then for a long time no one considered letting him play the role of "not a good person" and felt that he was not like him. Until david Dawkin, the director of "Wedding Pride", met him, the director had never seen "Two-Faced Female Spy", and there was no way to "stereotype", and finally gave him a small supporting role. Unbeknownst to Director Dawkin, the role changed Cooper's career. He gained 30 pounds, his whole body shape changed, and more importantly, he played a jerk, a jerk outright. Interestingly, the movie was a big hit, and then someone met Cooper, and when he was like that character, they were very surprised when they found out that this person was not as strong as in the movie, and that he was still a big sweetheart and not a jerk at all.
Tips: Cooper's fork in the road of life -
basketball player
At the age of 10, Cooper found that his feet were particularly large, and he had a premonition that he could break through 1.9m in the future and become a real basketball player, but later stopped at 1.85m in height, and he gave up this dream.
cook
Stills from the movie "Chef Burning"
He is super able to eat, but also likes to cook, in kindergarten he likes to tinker with all kinds of food for his friends, magically turn the ingredients in the refrigerator into delicious dishes, and when he grows up, he can't eat himself as a professional chef, but he has played a chef several times.
soldier
Stills from the movie American Sniper
When he was young and ignorant, Cooper fantasized about joining the army and then going to Japan as a ninja. Joining the army is something that the great director of Eastwood has helped him achieve, and he can only rely on himself to be a ninja.
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