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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Bradley Cooper would rather see his beloved Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl over Oscar wins for 'Maestro'

    The 48-year-old actor has had nine nominations for an Academy Award and confessed that instead of receiving the prestigious Best Actor and Best Director prizes for his biographical film about composer Leonard Bernstein, he'd rather see the NFL team win the championship in February


    Asked on 'The Howard Stern Show': "Sophie's choice for 2024: You win the Oscar - not only for Best Director but Best Actor and [Maestro co-star] Carey Mulligan wins Best Actress - or the Eagles have a Super Bowl victory?"

    He replied: "The Eagles Super Bowl victory."

    Bradley added: "I know. I'm sick. I'm not lying."

    Elsewhere, the Marvel star denied that his voice was changed post-production for Rocket Racoon in 'Guardians of the Galaxy'.

    Explaining how they record their voice parts, he said: "We do it like a play ... [director James Gunn] reads all the other characters, and I play Rocket, and that's how we do it the first round, and it's really wonderful," he revealed. "And then after all that gets laid in, you just keep honing it, or working on other things, or improvising."

    And Bradley revealed he spent a whole year training to sing as the washed-up rock star Jackson Maine in 2018's version of 'A Star is Born', while hailing co-star Lady Gaga's voice as the "nuclear power" of the blockbuster.

    He shared: "First of all, it wasn't my voice, it was the character's.

    "He always could imitate so many people's voices. His singing voice was a ... patchwork of all these different voices - that's kind of what Jackson Maine is.

    "That would be a whole lifetime thing.

    "I mean, it took me a year, Howard, of training ... three or four times a week just so I could get up and sing in front of people because it's so hard ... it's not something deep inside of me."

    Bradley added: "The nuclear power of that movie is Lady Gaga's voice - that has to be recorded live, and so we recorded all the vocals live ... so I had to learn how to sing.

    "I had a feeling that I had good pitch and there was something interesting about my voice, but I knew I would have to do a lot of work."

    © 2026 Bang Showbiz, NZCity

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