"I always felt like I could play a conductor," Bradley Cooper said of his new movie,
Maestro.
In this
biopic
stamped Netflix, he embodies the composer and musician Leonard Bernstein, famous author of
West Side Story
.
The platform unveiled, on Monday, May 30, some photos of the shooting on its Twitter account.
We see the actor of
A Star Is Born
(2018), also director of the film, transformed, alongside Carey Mulligan, interpreter of the wife of the maestro, the Chilean actress Felicia Montealegre.
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In the photos, the father of Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper, 5, appears aged.
The result of several hours of makeup makes him totally unrecognizable.
Producer Scott Stuber warned
Variety
magazine in December 2021: “We worked a lot on makeup and voice.
I'm thrilled to see someone so deeply focused on creating a story that means so much to them.
And Carey Mulligan is an incredible actress."
As the actor announced earlier this year, production on
Maestro
began this month, but the feature isn't expected to release until sometime in 2023.
A film that was originally to be directed by Spielberg
Originally, it was Steven Spielberg who was to direct this film since the Oscar-winning director signed a remake of West Side Story released in December 2021. When he approached Bradley Cooper to play in the feature film, this one would have answered him: I always had the impression that I could play a conductor, but can I do research on this history and see if I can write the scenario and carry out the film?
Would you let me do that?"
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Before adding: “I think he knew he wasn't going to make this film for a while.
He was kind enough to give it to me, and it's what I've been working on for four and a half years," he told
Variety
.
The release date of the feature film has not yet been revealed.
