Michaela Zee Leonard Bernstein‘s children Jamie, Alexander and Nina were in complete awe the first time they saw Bradley Cooper as the renowned conductor and composer. “It took our breath away, it made us gasp,” Jamie Bernstein told Variety at the New York Film Festival premiere of “Maestro.” “In some pictures, we could tell a little bit that it was Bradley, but there were certain photographs where we would go, ‘Oh my God!’ It was so amazingly perfect.” “I had a FaceTime call come in, and I didn’t recognize the number.
But I chanced it, and it was my father as an old man!” added Nina Maria Felicia Bernstein. “Obviously, that was not my father as an old man, it was Bradley.
I could not stop laughing. He had the cigarette and the glasses, it was so spot on.” Bernstein’s children attended the NYFF premiere of “Maestro” on Monday night at David Geffen Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic.
On Sept. 23, 1962, Bernstein and the Philharmonic performed the inaugural concert at the venue. “Maestro” director and star Cooper made an inconspicuous appearance at the premiere, skipping press and not speaking to the audience out of solidarity with SAG-AFTRA.
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