All actors have their individual preferences and quirks when working, that’s nothing new. However, Bradley Cooper is making headlines for his admission for Variety’s Directors on Directors series, revealing that he’s got a major problem with chairs. Needless to say, people are having a field day with it.
The move from actor to director was a natural one.
Promoting his new movie “Maestro,” which he both starred in and directed, Cooper opened up about his process of putting a movie together. Most of what he had to say was pretty standard… except for the whole chairs thing.
As an actor, he always felt just as interested in what was going on behind the camera as he was in what was happening in front of it. Spike Lee asked Cooper, “You were calling the plays from the sidelines, not up in the booth?”
Cooper confirmed, saying that before he became a director himself, he learned the craft by working with the directors of the films he was acting in.
“For me, it was such a natural transition, once I had the courage to write and direct a movie.”
Bradley Cooper has “always hated chairs.”
one second into the Spike Lee Bradley Cooper directors on directors and Bradley is pulling a Christopher Nolan no chair on set bit – I'm just gonna look forward to Spike Lee's reaction shots throughout pic.twitter.com/6SS865uYqA
— በአንድአምላክ ይመኑ። (@BandamlakYimenu) December 14, 2023
What’s he got against having a comfy place to sit, you ask? Well, it’s not conducive to doing your best work as a director.
As he explained, “When I direct, I don’t watch playback. There’s no chairs. I’ve always hated chairs on sets; your energy dips the minute you set down in a chair.”
Instead, Cooper likes to stand so that he can move about as necessary and offer the best feedback and instructions to the actors he’s working with, which is fair enough.
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This soundbite makes for a laugh, but what he’s saying makes sense.
When Bradley Cooper sees a chair on set https://t.co/PdgNxtjNdd pic.twitter.com/lG1xPTjOC0
— Kyle Andrews (@kylefandrews) December 15, 2023
Of course, the internet has jumped on Bradley Cooper saying he “hates chairs,” using that quote to imply that he has a deep-seated hatred of a piece of furniture. It’s great for the lolz, but that is, of course, simplifying what he’s saying.
Cooper feels that sitting down while directing removes him from the process and makes it harder for him to do his job more dynamically, and that makes sense. It doesn’t mean his method is the only right one, of course, but that’s his preference.
That being said, it’s pretty hilarious to imagine him side-eyeing any chair that dares to turn up on set. Some people just want to sit down, dude!
Bradley Cooper when someone finds a chair on his set https://t.co/ZOWQiPAG3U pic.twitter.com/pGUhBSTOfJ
— Poetic Justice (@MalaaiLama) December 16, 2023
