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The New Yorker Radio Hour

Bradley Cooper Contends for Best Actor in “Maestro”

The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

News, David, Books, Arts, Storytelling, Wnyc, New, Remnick, News Commentary, Yorker, Politics

4.25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The writer-director tells David Remnick that conducting an actual orchestra, in the role of Leonard Bernstein, was “the scariest thing I’ve ever done, hands down.”

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0:00.0

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker.

0:10.3

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'm David Remnick.

0:13.0

In his years in the movies,

0:15.0

Bradley Cooper has already lived a few distinct lives.

0:19.0

We first got to know him as a kind of charming lunghead

0:22.0

in ensemble comedies like Wedding Crashers and The Hangover.

0:26.4

Then came Bradley Cooper, the leading man, both a heart-throb on magazine covers and an intense

0:32.0

presence in films like American sniper. In 2018 we saw a new

0:37.2

Bradley Cooper emerge, the director, first with A Star is Born and then last year

0:42.1

with Maestro.

0:43.0

Maestro is a film about Leonard Bernstein, the conductor and the composer and teacher,

0:49.0

someone whose skills ranged from the Broadway stage to the heights of classical music.

0:55.4

It's a funny thing about this meaning business in music anyway.

1:00.4

When you say, what does it mean? What you're really really saying is what is it trying to tell you what ideas

1:06.3

Does it make me have?

1:08.1

Bradley Cooper stars as Bernstein opposite Carrie Mulligan, who plays his wife,

1:13.0

the actress Felicia Montelegra.

1:15.2

Hello, I'm Lenny.

1:17.0

Hello, Felicia.

1:18.2

Bernstein, like that one.

1:20.1

Montelegra.

1:21.6

Montelegra? Montelegra? Montelegra? Montelegra cone.

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