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Bradley Cooper opened up about how he had a “huge break” on the set of “Wedding Crashers” while reflecting on how Vince Vaughn crushed his performance in the hit early 2000s romantic comedy.
The “Maestro” star, in conversation with fellow nominees in the Best Actor category At this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, he said director David Dobkin gave him a “great opportunity” by casting him as “the bad boy,” Sack Lodge, in the 2005 film.
“I think until then I always tried to do it well. Be present and do it well,” Cooper said before commenting on Vince Vaughn’s performance.
“I’m watching this guy destroy a scene, just smash it. And then he wants another one. I remember it was the scene where the grandmother shoots him, she pulls out the gun and he runs out and says, ‘David, I want to do another one.’ And in front of everyone, this huge equipment and lights, it’s so stressful and your willingness to fail.”
Cooper described Vaughn as a huge, tough guy, the “funniest” and the “fastest.”
He said, “I was kind of in awe of this human being, this man who was just failing, willing to try anything.”
He added that “it wasn’t even about the movie” at one point on set.
“It was about all of us watching this artist explore with total abandon,” explained Cooper, who once told “Inside the Actor’s Studio” host James Lipton that Vaughn was a “force of nature.”
“And I remember it was like a diamond went through the center of my head and I said, ‘That’s it! Like that freedom to be absolutely willing to fail.’ It changed me forever,” she continued.
Cooper previously spoke about his character in the film, telling NPR in 2011 who was a “compound of three or four boys” went to high school.
“The thing about these types of guys is that I was completely in love with them in the sense of how they live their life seemingly carefree. And they are so despicable that people gravitate toward them nonetheless. And women like them, but they are very degrading to women. And they fascinate me,” Cooper said.
“There is a strange dilemma about this kind of man,” he went on to say. “So I studied them in high school. So when I played this guy… having watched these kids in high school and wanted to be them in many ways, it was very easy to take on that role, and very therapeutic.”