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THE INTERVIEW

Limitless

asy on the eyes, Cooper has proven flexible enough
to use his brilliant blues to be a convincing actor,
both as good and not-so-good onscreen characters.
E Cooper’s following has steadily risen over the years.
Like his heroes, Clint Eastwood and Robert De Niro, Cooper’s
persona is that of the old-fashioned man’s man, often portrayed
as a character with a serious personality flaw. He enjoys working
with the same people over and over again, and has created what he
calls his artistic community, like a family that offers him a sense
of continuous evolvement. During his first years, he says he spent
as much time auditioning for parts as watching and learning, for
directing had always been a part of his lifelong career plan.

He and Robert De Niro co-produced and acted in the 2011
production of Limitless, as well as in Silver Linings Playbook in
2012. Silver Linings Playbook was a box-office success and earned
$236.4 million on a production budget of $21 million. Peter Silver Linings Playbook
Travers of Rolling Stone magazine, said that in this movie Cooper
"…seizes the juiciest role of his career and meets every comic and
dramatic challenge.”

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