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lassically good-looking, very blue-
eyed Bradley Cooper has been pop-
ping up in movies for almost a
decade and a half. You'll recognize a young
Cooper playing Ben in 2001's "Wet Hot
American Summer." Then there were TV
movies, TV series and the lead part in "The
Midnight Meat Train."
Yeah, you read the title right, and no, you
don't ever have to see that film. Note: It's on a
marquee of a cinema Cooper walks by in
"Silver Linings Playbook." Speaking of which,
until "Silver Linings Playbook" (for which he was
Oscar nominated), Cooper has really been
more of an ensemble actor. The spotlight has
been on him often, but he's never really held a
film on his own.
Until now. In "American Sniper," under the
'We fell into a situation
here where we had the
opportunity to tell this
man's story, who was
a very charismatic,
dynamic human being.'
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