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The Amazing Story Behind Bradley Cooper Getting Hired to Direct ‘Maestro’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Long after he became
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Speaker 1: a big name actor, Bradley Cooper cemented his status as
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Speaker 1: a talented and bankable director with his twenty eighteen smash
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Speaker 1: remake of his Star Is Born, and most people assume
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Speaker 1: he was able to direct Maestro based on the box
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Speaker 1: office success and critical acclaim of A Star Is Born,
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Speaker 1: but in fact, the decision to hire Bradley to direct
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Speaker 1: Meestro was based on the critique of only one man,
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Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg, Before A Star Is Born was even released.
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Speaker 1: Spielberg was attached to direct Maestro, and he reached out
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Speaker 1: to Bradley Cooper to star in it. Bradley was instantly
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Speaker 1: on board, but Stephen decided to make West Side Story instead.
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Speaker 1: While remaining a Maestro producer, Bradley became interested in directing
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Speaker 1: but was unproven, so he asked Stephen and the writer
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Speaker 1: of Maestro, Josh Singer, to screen an early cut off
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Speaker 1: A Star Is Born. Soon after he'd finished filming it,
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Speaker 1: Josh tells Indy Wire, we were blown away within the
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Speaker 1: first ten minute. Steven leans over to Bradley and says,
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Speaker 1: you're directing Maestro. Meistro's on Netflix and in theaters that's
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