No one would ever see him: beautiful as the sun, cultured, with a very respectable sentimental curriculum and a daughter with one of the most desired women on the planet, Irina Shayk, with which it is not even clear if it’s really over. And then nine Oscar nominations and a project in the pipeline that is already an announced success: Master, on the life of Leonard Bernstein. But Bradley Cooper to get to all this he had to climb its mountains. And to reach the top the falls have been many.
He told them all in the podcast Smartless, confessing with an open heart: «The dismissal immediately from Alias it destroyed me, ”he confessed. “I had self-esteem under my heels, I felt lost, a nullity. And I threw myself on cocainebecoming addicted ».
At the time Cooper, who after the degree in English literature had gone to live in New York, had moved to Los Angeles just to shoot the series with Jennifer Garner. But the impact was not the best: «I felt like when I was in high school: I couldn’t enter any club, no girl looked at me. I was totally depressed“.
“The advantage, if we can say so, was that this happened at the turn of the age of 30The star then added The positive sideor. “But it went on until I was cast for Hangover. I was 36 when I made that film: having gone through all those experiences before reaching success was crucial in my existence“.
After that film, the turning point: the Oscar nominations, the public success, the wedding (ended in 2019), and above all fatherhood. The birth of Lea De Seine in 2017 changed his life: «Becoming a father gave a boost to my self-esteem. Every single thing has taken on another hue, another brightness for the mere fact that it is became a father. Any professional success, any beautiful script that comes to me, any wonderful moment on set gives me a joy that’s only a penny of what spending time with can give me. that wonderful creature who is my daughter. And they are not legends, it is the pure truth “
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Source: Vanity Fair
