Bradley Cooper reveals he was ready to give up on acting before Licorice Pizza

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Bradley Cooper was seemingly ready to walk away from acting for good, before being offered his critically-acclaimed role in Licorice Pizza.The 47-year-old actor was coming off of critical acclaim for his directorial debut, 2018's A Star Is Born, with a Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro up next.During a new interview with Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali for Variety, Cooper revealed that he would have done anything to star in a Paul Thomas Anderson film.

Ready:Bradley Cooper was seemingly ready to walk away from acting for good, before being offered his critically-acclaimed role in Licorice Pizza Anything:During a new interview with Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali for Variety , Cooper revealed that he would have done anything to star in a Paul Thomas Anderson filmWhen the conversation turned to Cooper's performance as volatile movie producer Jon Peters in Licorice Pizza, Cooper said he thought Anderson was, 'an absolute master.'Ali agreed that Anderson is a, 'brilliant filmmaker,' with Cooper revealing that he was just about to give up acting before PTA called.'The reason that I didn’t give up acting is Paul Thomas Anderson.

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,' Cooper said.

He filmed Licorice Pizza during a break from his other critically-acclaimed film this year, Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley, which brought its own complications.