The Life of Bradley Cooper

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He’s one of the biggest actors and directors in Hollywood, but did you know he once worked as a doorman for a luxury hotel in New York? This is the life of Bradley Cooper.  Subscribe to Brut America: https://bit.ly/BrutAmericaYT  📲Watch the newest Brut videos on our mobile apps:  ▶︎https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brut/id... ▶︎https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...  #brut #brutamerica  Discover More Brut: ▶︎ https://brut.media/us ▶︎ FB:     / brutamerica   ▶︎ IG:     / brutamerica   ▶︎ TW:     / brutamerica

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00:00At 12, Bradley Cooper decided he would become an actor after seeing the David Lynch film,

00:06Elephant Man.

00:07When I was a kid, I saw the movie, and it made me want to be an actor.

00:10I've always felt an absolute connection to him, probably thought about him maybe every

00:15day since I was 12.

00:16At 18, while still in high school, he wrote for his local newspaper, Philadelphia Daily

00:21News.

00:22At 21, while an undergrad at Georgetown, he spent six months studying abroad in the south

00:27of France.

00:28There, he perfected his French.

00:30At 22, he began studying the dramatic arts at the Actor's Studio Drama School at the

00:35New School in New York City, where he incurred $70,000 of student loan debt.

00:40I grew up and I looked like a girl when I was a kid, and I was like a chip that I had

00:44to be a tough guy even though I didn't look like one.

00:46At the same time, to help pay for school, he worked as a doorman at a luxury New York

00:50hotel.

00:51During that time, he met Leonardo DiCaprio for the first time.

00:55While he was a hotel guest, he says he remembers helping DiCaprio up to his room with his luggage.

01:00At 24, he got his first role in Sex and the City alongside Sarah Jessica Parker.

01:05At 26, he clinched his first leading TV role in the J.J. Abrams series, Alias, with co-star

01:11Jennifer Garner.

01:13The experience ended badly.

01:14Convinced he would be fired, Cooper asked Abrams to write him off of the show.

01:18It was then that his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction began.

01:22He told The Hollywood Reporter,

01:37At 29, he decided to get sober.

01:40At 30, he got his big screen break in Wedding Crashers, and more Hollywood leading roles

01:45followed.

01:46At 34, he gained international recognition with his role as Phil, the playboy protagonist

01:51of the Hangover trilogy.

01:53That ran until 2013.

01:55Speaking to The Guardian, he said the role shared no resemblance with his real life.

01:59At 36, after learning his father had cancer, Cooper moved back home to spend time with him.

02:04Five months later, his father succumbed to the disease.

02:07Cooper says he, quote,

02:13Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, he shared,

02:22It was a schism.

02:24And its aftershock has not stopped.

02:26And we need each other.

02:27So here we are.

02:28But don't get me wrong.

02:30It's not without its complications.

02:32It's not like I live in a compound and she's in the guest house.

02:34No.

02:35She's in the next room.

02:36The same year, he fulfilled one of his biggest dreams, appearing alongside his acting role

02:40model Robert De Niro in the film Limitless, his first as a producer.

02:45Still that year, he was named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine.

02:51I was being punked.

02:53And maybe I was, if you look at how it all turned out.

02:58At 37, he received his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role in Silver Linings

03:04Playbook.

03:05At 39, he was the third-best-paid actor in the world, with annual earnings estimated

03:09at $46 million by Forbes.

03:12At 42, he became father to a daughter, Lea Desen, with his ex Irina Shayk.

03:17At 43, he made his directorial debut with A Star is Born, in which he also starred alongside

03:23Lady Gaga.

03:24In an interview, Cooper shared that he had trained for a year to learn to sing for the

03:28role.

03:29At 48, his second directorial effort, Maestro, was released on Netflix.

03:33It even featured an appearance from his daughter.

03:36The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor.

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