Bradley Cooper Is ‘Not Sure’ He’d Be Alive If Not For His Daughter
Bradley Cooper and Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper attend Netflix's Maestro LA special screening at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on December 12, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
Bradley Cooper says that becoming a father saved his life. In a new interview with Dax Shepard on his podcast, the Maestro actor-director-producer revealed, “I’m not sure I’d be alive if I wasn’t a dad.”
Cooper, 49, and model Irina Shayk, 38, whom he dated from 2015 to 2019, welcomed their daughter, Lea, in March 2017. He expressed to Shepard how overwhelmed he felt at the time before the birth of their daughter. Realizing that having a child was going to “dictate everything you do from now on” and that his “DNA is going to tell you that there’s something more important than you.”
He admitted later in the interview that prior to his daughter’s birth, he couldn’t understand or relate when he’d hear other parents say things like, “I would die in a second for my kid.” Even in Lea’s first few months after being born, the award-winning actor wasn’t sure if he “really” loved “the kid.” However, he said all of a sudden, his perspective and feelings about Lea, almost seven years old, changed without questioning further. Cooper noted that being a father led him to want to work on himself to become the best version he could be because he wanted “to do the least amount of damage that I could do to my daughter.”
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Two years ago, Cooper told Will Arnett that wiping his daughter’s bum as she sat on the toilet was “the f—ing best moment of my life right now.” The Silver Linings Playbook actor has also been open about his past struggles with substance and previously said he feels “very lucky” to have since overcome them, and he is going on nearly 20 years sober. “I was so lost and I was addicted to cocaine,” he said in 2022. He hopes that his daughter will “hopefully” learn from his mistakes and “help unburden her with any of my bulls—.”
Where To Watch The 2024 Oscar-Nominated Films
The 2024 Oscar-nominated films are all great this year. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer snagged a whopping 13 nominations. Yorgos Lanthimos’ feminist fantasy film, Poor Things, was close behind with 11 nominations.Martin Scorsese’s historical crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon received ten nominations, while Greta Gerwig’s box-office smash Barbie, earned eight nominations. This year, 321 feature films were eligible for the Oscars, and 265 of those qualified for the Best Picture category. For the first time in history, three of the ten movies nominated for Best Picture were directed by a female, the most in Oscars history (Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and Celine Song’s Past Lives).
Although many of the Academy’s favorite films only recently arrived in theaters, many of them are already available to stream, rent, or purchase online. So far, The Zone of Interest, Poor Things, American Fiction, Past Lives are only available to buy for $19.99 at press time. Anatomy of a Fall is available to rent for $5.99 or $6.99 on AppleTV+ and Prime Video, and YouTube and Google Play, respectively.
As we previously reported, the 96th Academy Awards will air live from the Dolby Theater on ABC, abc.com, or the ABC app. on Sunday, March 10 starting at a new earlier time at 7 pm ET, scheduled to end at 10:30 pm ET. A 30-minute pre-show will lead into the live show at 6:30. Jimmy Kimmel returns as host for the fourth time. Zendaya, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicolas Cage, and Al Pacino are among the first group of presenters for the awards ceremony. Also presenting are last year’s winners: Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Oscar winners Mahershala Ali, Jessica Lange, Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong’o, and Sam Rockwell are also set to take the stage.
Keep scrolling to see how to stream all the Oscar-nominated feature films in the major categories:
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