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What Cartoon Character Inspired Bradley Cooper’s Performance in ‘Maestro’? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Bradley Cooper's an Academy Award nominated actor, so you'd think
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Speaker 2: his body of professional work would be his most direct
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Speaker 2: connection to playing acclaimed composer Leonard Bernstein in his new
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Speaker 2: film Maestro, But it's actually something else. Cartoons. Every Bugs
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Speaker 2: Bunny fan is aware of the Looney Tunes character stepping
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Speaker 2: in to conduct an orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl. It's
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Speaker 2: one of his most famous scenes, Bradley Tail's deadline. Growing up,
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Speaker 2: there was always classical music playing in the house, so
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Speaker 2: because of those cartoons, I used to wave my hands
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Speaker 2: to pretend that I was creating the music. One Christmas,
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Speaker 2: I asked Santa, and all of a sudden I had
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Speaker 2: a baton that I was able to wield. So in
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Speaker 2: a way, I've been prepping for this character since I
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Speaker 2: was little. It was the same thing with my last movie,
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Speaker 2: as Starsborn. I've been playing air guitar since I was
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Speaker 2: a kid. That's Bradley Cooper there on his connection to
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Speaker 2: playing Leonard Bernstein and Maestro, which is in limited theaters
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Speaker 2: now and it's Netflix today.
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