You’ve got to admire Bradley Cooper’s chutzpah.
When Steven Spielberg offered Cooper the lead role in his planned Leonard Bernstein biopic, Cooper presented a counter-offer.
He’d take the role of the legendary American conductor on the condition that Spielberg would step back to produce, allowing Cooper to direct.
Oh, and he wanted to write the screenplay, too.You have to be exceedingly sure of yourself to come at Spielberg like that.
Fortunately, Spielberg saw an early cut of Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” and was impressed enough to hand the project over.
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