Serial Noceurs: the day Vince Vaughn changed Bradley Cooper’s life

The Maestro actor says he admired “this artist who was in total abandonment (…) And it changed me forever!”

If today he is a star actor, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Bradley Cooper was still only a supporting role in the 2000s. Revealed in the series A.k.ahe arrives in comedy Serial Revelers (Wedding Crashers) in 2005, to play the villain opposite Vince Vaughn And Owen Wilson. “It was really my big break in Hollywood“, tells today Bradley Cooper in a video for the SAG Awards (below). Above all, he confides that having attended the show Vince Vaughnon set, changed his vision of the job:

“Until then, I was always trying to do things well in front of the camera. To have presence, to do things correctly. And then I see Vince Vaughn destroying scene after scene. He kills everything and then he asks (the director) to do another take. For example, I remember the scene where the grandmother shoots him, pulls out her gun and he runs away. He just says, “I want to do another one .” In front of everyone, in front of the technicians, the whole team… It’s scary and yet, he wanted to try, even if it meant failing. And looking at Vince Vaughn, huge badass, the funniest guy , the coolest guy, I was just impressed. Amazed by this man who was trying, even though he was failing. At one point, he even started singing! It didn’t work, but it didn’t work. it didn’t matter. We were all there, at the show, watching this artist who was in total abandon.”

A performance that “tilts“in the head of Bradley Cooperwho had a revelation, on the set of Serial Revelersthanks to Vince Vaughn : “That’s it ! That freedom to be absolutely willing to fail is what I want. And it changed me forever!”

Wedding Crashers grossed $288 million at the worldwide box office and became one of the biggest comedies of the 2000s. Four years later, Bradley Cooper exploded as headliner of Very Bad Trip.