Bradley Cooper Says His Next Project Is a Script He's Writing That's Been Burning in Him Since MAESTRO

Twelve-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper has worked on several passion projects throughout his career, and the next project he’s got in the works is one that he says has been “burning” in him since Maestro.

In the 2023 biopic Maestro, which garnered seven Academy Award noms, Cooper played conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein, and he threw himself wholly into the role, not just learning about his subject’s life, but learning to conduct Bernstein’s compositions for an orchestra. It was a several-years-long endeavor, and it sounds like he is working on something just as close to his heart.

In a recent interview with a BAFTA Life In Pictures event on Friday evening in London, Cooper was asked what’s coming next for him. The multi-hyphenate told the audience: “There is something that’s been burning in me since Maestro and I’m writing it now and we’ll see. Talk about terrified, so terrified, way more terrifying.”

During the talk, Cooper talked multiple times about fear as a motivating factor for his work. He said: “I get terrified in the beginning of a project, like terrified. That’s the scariest thing.

“But the more work I put in, the less scared I get and the more the excitement starts to overtake the fear. By the time I’m showing up on set, I’m so excited that that really is the propulsive engine rather than fear.

“But on stage, I was definitely scared. Right before, but I get scared of weird things. Like what if I pass gas on stage or what if I get the hiccups. What happens if I get the hiccups in the middle of The Elephant Man.”

The event’s host Edith Bowman asked whether the new project is a musical. “It’s not a musical,” Cooper confirmed. She pressed whether it would feature dancing. “I don’t know, you never know, I do love to dance,” he joked.

Stay tuned for updates on Bradley Cooper’s next move.

via: Deadline