For the most part, I could take or leave Bradley Cooper. I think he’s overrated and overhyped as a leading man, and I’ve never really found him attractive either. But I just watched a clip of B-Coop on the James Corden show this week, and now… I might have some feelings. Minor feelings, but generally positive feelings. It’s the combination of a glorious out-of-work beard (which is rich, full and beautiful) plus B-Coop speaking unapologetically about how extraordinary it was to watch Pres. Obama speak at the DNC. Bradley got a ridiculous amount of online hate from Republicans last week when cameras panned to him at the DNC. Those Republicans were flabbergasted that the actor who played Chris Kyle in American Sniper was actually… a liberal Democrat? It’s true. Here’s the clip from Corden:
The whole conversation is pretty interesting, mostly because I love a good Bill Clinton story. And yes, I would love to know what Bubba was really up to in Thailand, because it wasn’t JUST giving a speech on energy. Bradley said that watching Pres. Obama speak was “unbelievable,” and when Corden asks about the online backlash, Bradley says: “I was not expecting that…Republicans were up in arms because I was there listening to the president speak… I think he was an incredible president. I was really excited.” Director Todd Phillips joked that being mad that the actor who played Chris Kyle is now attending the DNC is “like the mob being mad at De Niro for being in The Intern.”
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I don’t think it was all the people in the GOP. I think it was the uneducated, far right conservatives who were upset.
I don’t get why they thought Bradley Cooper was a Republican. Did he say or infer anything like that when he was doing promo for the film?
BECAUSE HE PLAYED ONE IN A MOVIE. Duh, Sherry.
I need to pull together enough money to buy a remote island.
This country is officially Code Red in terms of idiocy.
Everyone knows that Anthony Hopkins is a cannibalistic serial killer in real life, right?
And you really, really don’t want to get Mark Ruffalo angry. You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.
The people who complained about Bradley Cooper at the DNC because he played Kyle are probably the same people who are yelling, “Wanna know what REALLY happened in Benghazi?? Watch the movie 13 Hours!!”
As a (real) former soldier who is also a Democrat, I seriously eyeroll at the idea that one cannot be a patriot. soldier, marine, friend/family/girlfriend/etc of someone in the military and NOT be a (crazy) Republican. The two are not mutually exclusive! People can love their country and be willing to serve and still be Democrats, ya know–or even play them in movies. 😉
Scarlett, I’ve stopped trying to argue about 13 hours. Based on the veracity of the arguments, you’d think we were debating the order of the planets in the solar system.
Sherry, you don’t get it because you actually have a brain and use it to think logically. The people who are mad at Bradley are the same people who don’t understand what “acting” is.
I saw a tweet where someone had taken a screenshot of a post Chris Kyles wife had made on his fb page, it said -“Case in point, Bradley Cooper is not a democrat even though he exercised his first amendment right to attend the DNC, which happened to be historically and personally important because it was in his HOMETOWN of Philadelphia.”. She thinks he’s a republican…I don’t know anything about her , it could be just wishful thinking on her part? Or a little delusion maybe?
Have you heard Taya Kyle’s comments about gun control?
Let’s just say she’s not the sharpest tool in the shed…
I think they are same people who make up Trump’s base … if you look at their denials at recent polling, it’s like they live in an alternate universe from the rest of society. Maybe in that universe Cooper is a Republican …
@Pedro45, and Mark Ruffalo turns into a giant green monster when angry, Henry Cavill can fly, and Daniel Craig has a license to kill.
Why deal w REAL LIFE clusterf$ck that is Donald Trump when hating on an actor seems productive?! GOP always keeping priorities straight!
Btw, love every movie BCoop does. He makes me believe! Lol
Exactly. Do they know he’s playing a role? The real Chris Kyle is gone?
Cooper never even hinted that he was a republican as far as I know.
I will still side eye him forever for making that goddamn mess of a film.
The “shooting brown children is ultimately OK, because, like patriotism” message, the breastfeeding a plastic doll, Clint Eastwood directing in what is obviously the beginnings of dementia — messy in every direction.
Yeah, I didn’t see the film but the Chris Kyle story is really disconcerting. And the way the right has spun it it’s not surprising that they’re upset that its star is a Democrat.
“Obviously the beginnings of dementia”?
See: ranting at an empty chair, his comments about racism, his belief that Scott Eastwood has what it takes to be an actor etc
I’m very progressive/democrat, and I rented American Sniper for a hate watch, expecting it to be this propaganda-ish, jingoistic bullshit, and I was pretty surprised by how… idk, nuanced, it was. Or like, non-partisan, despite who the filmmaker was. Yes, it is told from the perspective of a conservative straight white militaristic man, but there’s quite a bit of critique of the war and the treatment of veterans, even the macho need to be a “savior” is treated critically, and the shooting of children is treated with gravity and it actually causes the main character to have a complete emotional breakdown.
I say this not because I’m being contrarian but because it disappoints me to see my fellow progressives write off something that, despite being told from a viewpoint contrary to ours, actually wasn’t a bad or overly nationalistic movie. I actually felt like it was valuable in that conservatives and liberals could agree on a lot that was portrayed, and find common ground.. I really hate when I see certain ignorant conservatives completely write off people or art that they haven’t even engaged with, and it bums me out when people that are supposed to be progressive, open minded, have a kneejerk response, just because they think they know what “American sniper” stands for, but they haven’t even seen the movie.
If you were offended by “American sniper” the movie, not the actual person or the hoopla around it, I would love to hear your perspective, bc I really wonder if I was missing something with that one.
@Wowza: I completely agree. I saw it when it came out expecting to hate-watch it, but I wanted to at least understand why some people thought that guy was a hero. I actually ended up seeing it again with my husband. I thought it was an incredibly complex portrait of the man, and not at all a full-on endorsement. For one thing, however Tara Kyle is in real life, the character of Tara in the movie was one of the most critical voices about the war and Kyle. And there were so many moments when I think the viewer could interpret Kyle giving into a savior complex. It didn’t paint him as a hero — it painted him as a *believer.* But was what he believed in the right thing? I actually thought it hinted that Kyle, as an ideologue, was not very different from the ideologues that the U.S. calls “terrorists.”
I don’t think anyone could expect anything that stupid Bradley, it defies the tenants of basic human intelligence.
Then again Clint Eastwood did think that fake ass baby would fly in your movie so…*shrugs*.
…God, do you think some of them thought it was a real baby?
“being mad that the actor who played Chris Kyle is now attending the DNC is “like the mob being mad at De Niro for being in The Intern.”
That really made me laugh out loud.
Of course you weren’t expecting a backlash, Bradley. You’re actually sane.
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition !
I love you for this.
@Doofus
Back atchya!
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Love this!!!
I ❤️ Python… You win the Internet today! LOVE it!
Are real babies mad at the fake baby too?
I’ve never found him attractive. I remember him from when he was on Jennifer Garner’s show Alias. I can take him or leave him as an actor but the sex symbol status, not this guy.
I thought he was cute on Alias but not since, lol.
I’m not a fan but I’ve heard a couple interviews with him that impressed me. He seems earnest and genuine.
I NEVER found him to be in the least bit attractive/hot.
I never understood the stink about him. Met him at a party/reception and hung out with him a little. I was taken aback by how good-looking and tall and nice he was. Granted, this was just one side of his personality I saw, but, man, he was handsome. FTR, I still hate actors.
I’ve always liked BC as an actor but I like his interviewing persona even more. On the interview circuit, he always comes across as one of the most highly educated and articulate actors in the business. I guess the bar is super low b/c most actors didn’t even finish high school but I’m always impressed when actors actually bothered to get a college education and then demonstrate intelligence when they’re asked about various topics.
This is not to say that only college-educated people are intelligent — far from it — in fact some actors got great educations (ahem Natalie Portman) and sound like idiots in interviews, and other actors who got barely any formal schooling come across as very informed and knowledgeable (Angelina Jolie). I’m just saying that I like that Cooper demonstrates that even rich and famous actors can have college degrees and have a well thought-out opinion on issues that they can express well when they are asked. Maybe just because it’s so rare. And because I’m a teacher 🙂 🙂 :). Yay for actors getting degrees and coming across smart in public!!!
Interesting that he was nice, at least at that party – I think he’s good looking but I normally don’t find him too attractive for some reason. But this video is the first time i’ve thought he seemed normal, nice, and interesting. maybe even hot. also not as tightly wound as he has seemed to me in the past.
OMG….you are all making me laugh. Some people just don’t understand the difference between acting and real life. Maybe We can get Daniel Radcliffe to show up with his wand and get all Harry Potter on Voldermonte Trump…..or my new favorite name for him Don Joffrey Trump.
How can you all be getting mad at American sniper for ‘glamourzing violence against muslims’ but then praise Obama a man who actually bombed the hell out of these muslims countries?
Do we not remember a few weeks ago when a bunch of innocent Syrians were killed by the US?
Stop picking and choosing when you want to condemn violence.
Way to boil a very complex situation into one wrong sentence. Obama is trying to help the people of Syria, who are being bombed to hell by their own dictator. His hands are constrained by the fact that no one wants NATO ground troops involved. And the situation in the region generally is a consequence of Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. I’m so sick of people blaming Obama for foreign policy decisions that he had essentially no choice but to make.
Since when does the GOP and conservatives think they have cornered the market on patriotism? Newsflash, you can be a democrat AND support the military AND be patriotic!
All I can say is that he can totally rock a beard.
Wait…does this mean that Morgan Freeman ISNT God?
Guess he isn’t…
(runs crying …)