Bradley Cooper on Licorice Pizza and Nightmare Alley
Multi-hyphenate Bradley Cooper is out with two new films. There\u2019s \u201cLicorice Pizza,\u201d in which he plays real-life wild man producer Jon Peters, and \u201cNightmare Alley,\u201d where he stars as carnival worker-turned-con man Stanton Carlisle. Cooper commits to all his roles but says it was a challenge to bare all in Guillermo del Toro's dark drama, \u201cNightmare Alley.\u201d \u201cIt demanded that we be naked \u2014 emotionally and soulfully and even physically for me, which actually was a big deal,\u201d Cooper says. \u201cI still remember that day, just to be naked in front of the crew for six hours. \u2026 It was pretty heavy.\u201d In the first of a two-part interview, Cooper talks about how he prepared for each role. His short but memorable turn as Jon Peters was just nominated for a SAG Award.\xa0And Cooper has another connection to Peters \u2014 Cooper made 2018\u2019s \u201cA Star is Born,\u201d a remake of a 1954 film that producer Jon Peters had already re-made in 1976 with his then-girlfriend, Barbra Streisand. Cooper tells KCRW why he was so committed to writing and directing a remake of a remake, even though everyone told him not to do it.