"I said, 'Well, there's a lot,' Then I was gonna say, because we keep reading everybody thinks that Bradley's had plastic surgery. Everybody keeps saying that. I'm like, 'What people don't know is that he hasn't.' Right?"
The context for his conversation was Cooper making a surprise appearance on the Smartless podcast. He and Arnett mentioned doing interviews for their new movie, Is This Thing On. Arnett stars in the film, which Cooper directed, about a man who turns to stand-up comedy while going through a divorce and mid-life crisis. Arnett and Cooper said they had just done an interview and photo shoot for GQ magazine, and Arnett said each was asked to name something that people don't know about the other.
Is This Thing On?: Director/co-screenwriter Bradley Cooper curbs the flashier filmmaking flourishes that marred his Maestro and that understated approach results in one of his best features, an observant and wise depiction on the disorientation and loneliness that happens when a couple separates. Both funny and bittersweet, Is Thing Thing On? begins with the amicable parting of ways between Alex (Will Arnett, who is also co-writer and producer) and Tess (Laura Dern).
Laura Dern's starred in stories of marital disaster before - from her portrayal of a no-holds-barreddivorce lawyer in Marriage Story to her turn as a woman on the brink of a marriage breakdown in Big Little Lies. But her new film, Is This Thing On? (out Dec. 19), offers a brighter take on splitsville. Directed and co-written by Bradley Cooper, the movie follows Tess (Dern) and Alex (Will Arnett, also the film's co-writer), parents navigating the beginning of a separation.
Bradley Cooper, probably inspired by the first American stops on fellow pop diva Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball tour, will have a Vegas residency of his own. Or possibly a Monte Carlo residency. Regardless, something to do with casinos. Cooper is in talks to star opposite Margot Robbie in her long-anticipated Ocean's Eleven prequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lee Isaac Chung, who directed last summer's Twisters and the 2020 awards favorite Minari, is set to direct the prequel film.
LOS ANGELES -- Searchlight Pictures' "Is This Thing On?" stars Will Arnett and Laura Dern as a couple in a struggling marriage. The dramedy - directed, produced, and with a screenplay by Bradley Cooper - follows Alex (Arnett), who is "seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene." In the newly released trailer, Alex begins his stand-up comedy set with "I think I'm getting a divorce. What tipped me off was that I'm living in an apartment on my own. Yeah, and my wife and kids don't live there, so... That was probably the- the biggest clue."
