Bradley Cooper shows off his beautiful Blue eyes on the January 2015 cover of Vanity Fair magazine.
The Oscar nominated actor who stars in Clint Eastwood’s biopic, American Sniper reveals how he prepared for the role. Bradley reveals how losing his father and his past drug addict helped him in this role as well.
On how his past addictions and losing his father prepped him for his role: “Losing someone close to me. Going through love and loss…knowing what’s important. Realizing that the bottom line is that all I got is me, so it’s about time to stop trying to be something that I think you would want me to be. Or that would give me what I think I need. As you get older, thank God, your body deteriorates, but your soul sort of flourishes.”
On not using drugs to help him get in shape for the movie: “I did it naturally because I’ve been sober for 10 years and didn’t want to do anything. I had a realistic conversation. Can I do this in three months naturally? Can I gain 30 pounds of f*cking muscle? I didn’t know if I would be able to do it or not. Thank God—luckily—my f*cking body reacted fast.”
On judgement: “I see life much more gray as I get older. I was so sort of black-and-white in my late 20s. There’s right and there’s wrong and that’s it. That’s a tough way to live…. It’s rare that I judge somebody, really rare. I think people feel that, so it’s sort of easy to get close to somebody if you don’t feel judged by them.”
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