"Working 12 hours a day or more without being allowed to sit is inhumane," one user wrote. Bradley Cooper has sparked outrage because of comments made during a Directors on Directors interview – a dialogue between two directors – revealed by Variety on Friday, December 15. The reason for this anger? The Maestro hero claimed that he does not tolerate any chairs on his sets. "There are no chairs on my sets," he said. I've always hated chairs. I feel like our energy decreases the minute we sit in a chair. You can also sit on a crate of apples, it's nice and everyone is together."
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"It's a movie shoot, not an Amazon warehouse"
This discourse was criticised by many Internet users. "I challenge this man to stand 14 hours a day, 5 days a week, for a month," @HanmeiC tweeted. Millions of workers will be able to tell him what 8 hours of standing does to his back and feet." "He'll change his tune when his back is 55," @ARPEXC said.
"This speech sounds very ableist," another user tweeted. I don't consider myself an old man, but standing up all day would kill my back." Others have chosen to laugh about it. "This is a movie shoot, not an Amazon warehouse, calm down Bradley," @ThatMoviePage commented.
In his interview with Spike Lee, Bradley Cooper clarified that there is also no "video village" - the expression coined by the filmmaker to refer to the area reserved for the director, equipped with various screens and monitors - on his sets. "I hate it," he said. Faced with such remarks, an Internet user wanted to set the record straight.
"Chairs on set allow people to rest during a long, exhausting day dedicated to making a film that matches the director's vision," wrote @NedThorne. The "video village" allows all department heads to see how each element of the plan looks like. It's not all about you, Bradley." A controversy to which the main interested party has not reacted.
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