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Bradley Cooper Almost Quit Acting Before Starring in ‘Licorice Pizza’: Why He Changed His Mind

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Crisis averted. Bradley Cooper revealed that he previously considered saying goodbye to acting — until an offer to star in Licorice Pizza changed his mind.“The reason that I didn’t give up acting is Paul Thomas Anderson,” Cooper, 47, told Mahershala Ali during an interview for Variety‘s Actors on Actors on Tuesday, January 25. “When he called me to maybe be in his movie, Mahershala, I mean really, I think I’d open up a door in his movie.

I’d do anything.”Anderson, 51, directed the coming-of-age film, in which Cooper, 47, plays Jon Peters. The critically acclaimed movie — which also features Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman and Sean Penn — was shot during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.“We broke from [filming] Nightmare Alley, I was able to grow a beard and Searchlight was praying that I didn’t get COVID, because we had to go back and continue Nightmare Alley, but I was like, ‘There’s no way I’m not doing it.’ That was the first movie back from COVID,” the Academy Award nominee added. “And Jon Peters was the beginning of the movie, so I started with everybody else, which was wonderful, rather than coming in when everybody’s already downriver.

I spent three and a half weeks with Paul. I watched all the camera tests. He was teaching me all about lenses, things I never knew.

He’s incredible.”Even though the Pennsylvania native has been in the business since 1999, he still continues to have plenty of firsts on set.

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