Bradley Cooper wanted to fully immerse himself in the role of Leonard Bernstein for his sophomore directorial effort, “Maestro.”That meant Cooper, who co-wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the Netflix film, after much prep work, would often only appear in front of cast and crew after he had physically transformed to resemble Bernstein.
Makeup artist Kazu Hiro told Entertainment Weekly that Cooper spent over five hours in hair, makeup, and prosthetics prep to transform into the elderly composer/conductor, with “Maestro” spanning the majority of the composer’s adult life.“The last stage, the whole time, our call time was one in the morning,” Hiro said.
“The other thing was he wanted makeup to be finished before the crew call, so he would appear as Lenny to set up the shoot and everything.
That also kind of made our call time two hours earlier than normal, so that was quite tough.
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