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Bradley Cooper He joined his fellow SAG Award nominees for Best Actor Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”), Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”), Pablo Giamatti (“The remnants”) and Colman Domingo (“Rustin”) for an hour-long conversation, during which each actor was asked to name a career-changing moment they had with a fellow actor on set. Cooper, nominated for his self-directed performance in “Maestro,” had perhaps the most surprising choice of the bunch: Vince Vaughn in “Wedding Crashers.”
The 2005 R-rated comedy “Wedding Crashers” cast Cooper in the supporting role of Sack Lodge, Claire’s villainous boyfriend (Rachel McAdams). The actor was best known at the time for his good-guy role opposite Jennifer Garner in the ABC spy thriller “Alias,” which is why he saw his casting in “Wedding Crashers” as a “big break” since he was finally assigned the task of changing. the image of him on the screen.
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“Up until that point, I was always trying to do well on camera. Be present and do it well,” Cooper said of his acting process at the time. “I’m watching Vince Vaughn destroy a scene, just smash it, and then he wants another take. It was the scene where the grandmother shoots him, pulls out the gun and he runs away. He just says, ‘I want to do another one.’ In front of everyone…this huge equipment and lights and it’s so stressful…and it was his willingness to fail.”
“Seeing Vince Vaughn… this huge, tough guy, the funniest guy, the fastest… I was in awe of this human being, this man just failing, just willing to try anything,” Cooper continued. “At some point he was dispersing and realized this and was making this song. I loved watching it, but it clearly wasn’t working. But it didn’t even matter. It was all of us watching this artist explore with complete abandon. It was like a diamond went through the center of my head and said, ‘That’s it! That freedom to be absolutely willing to fail. It changed me forever. That was the moment.”
“Wedding Crashers,” starring Vaughn and Owen Wilson, grossed $288 million at the global box office and became one of the seminal R-rated comedies of the 2000s. Four years later, Cooper would make headlines and He would find even greater success in R-rated comedy with “The Hangover,” which launched a film trilogy that grossed $1.4 billion. copper recently said is open to making a fourth “Hangover” movie.
“I’d probably do ‘Hangover 4’ in a heartbeat,” Cooper said last November in “The New York Radio Hour” podcast. “Just because I love Todd (Phillips), I love Zach (Galifianakis), I love Ed (Helms) so much, I probably would.”
When asked if a fourth “Hangover” movie could be made, Cooper responded, “I don’t think Todd is ever going to do that.”
Watch the SAG Award best actor nominee’s full conversation in the video below.
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