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THE INTERVIEW

n 2015 Bradley Cooper performed on the London stage in
The Elephant Man and was nominated for a Tony Award
for Best Actor in a Play. In 2014, his handsome, savoir-faire-
I with-a-bite persona was also perfectly cast as Rocket the
Raccoon, in Guardians of the Galaxy. Cooper’s voice as the animated
character, Rocket, is a remarkable contribution amidst the live actors
of this fantasy series. The role and the movie were successfully reprised
in 2017’s Guardians of the Galaxy 2, with the third expected in 2020.

In A Star is Born, the world has proclaimed that Cooper, actor and
director, has come into his own. Cooper dedicated three years of his
life preparing and creating A Star is Born, including eighteen months
of musical training with the assistance of one of the world’s current
leading musicians and singer-songwriters, Lady Gaga. Audiences are
lapping it up, saying it is a shoo-in for Oscars and many other awards.

The onscreen chemistry and musical enchantment of Cooper and
Gaga, who co-wrote and produced most of the songs on the #1
Billboard Top 200 soundtrack for A Star Is Born, has once again made
this Pygmalion musical story a hit. Members of the entertainment
industry around the world lauded Cooper, Gaga’s and Sam Elliot’s
performances, as well as Cooper's successful directorial debut. As of
October 28, 2018, A Star Is Born box offices earned $148.6 million in
the United States and Canada, and a total worldwide gross of $254.6
million, as reported in Hollywood Deadline.

"Talent comes everywhere, but having something to say and a way
to say it so that people listen to it, that's a whole other bag. And
unless you get out and you try to do it, you'll never know."
- Bradley Cooper as Jackson Maine in A Star is Born.

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