“We try a scene, see how it looks, then go off to one side and work on it and come up with lines until there’s a musicality to it. He loved the script, but the three actors also add their own touches in a “very communal form.” It may be darker, but Cooper and the cast wanted to ensure it was even funnier. The stakes are higher and the characters are much more grounded.” “It’s better cinema, it’s a bigger film, a wider scope. Although it follows the well-known plot points of the first flick, it’s much darker than the first, he said. Some of that is due to the change in tone for Hangover II. I think it’s better than the first one, actually.” I think if I felt it was awful I’d feel a lot of pressure, but I really love the movie. “I’m really excited for people to see the movie. He even looked the part a bit, bearded and bundled up against the unseasonable chill in a Gallic blue-and-white striped sweater, sipping a latte as we chatted in a Yorkville hotel suite.Ĭooper said he didn’t feel any pressure about returning to the Hangover story even after the huge success of the film, which ruled the summer box office in 2009, bringing in more than $467 million worldwide and clocking in as the No. The Georgetown University English grad speaks excellent français thanks to time studying in Aix en Provence, France. Cooper plays Eric Draven, the role Brandon Lee was playing in the original movie when he was accidentally shot and fatally wounded by a stunt gun on set in 1994.Ĭooper will get along just fine on the French Riviera, by the way. ![]() ![]() “She can do anything.”Ĭooper stopped in Toronto to talk about The Hangover Part II before heading to the Cannes Film Festival to promote director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s remake of The Crow. I think she steals the whole movie,” says Cooper. Her next role is in Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo. Crystal, the 15-year-old simian actress, not only had scene-stealing roles in A Night at the Museum and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, she’s worked with Cooper before, on Failure to Launch. Just as the trio woke to some strange critters (a tiger and a chicken) in their midst in The Hangover, this time they discover a chain-smoking, street-smart monkey in a Rolling Stones denim vest. Didn’t you think Ed was just incredible?” “Ed gets to really show his ability as an actor in this film,” says Cooper. This time they’re in Bangkok and the groom-to-be is Stu. As in their first outing on a disastrous bachelor trip to Las Vegas, Phil (Cooper), Stu (Helms) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) wake up in a strange hotel room with murderous hangovers and a wedding pending, unable to recall what happened the night before, despite disturbing physical evidence they did some very stupid stuff. The sequel to 2009’s hit The Hangover, opening May 26, reunites the Wolf Pack, the trio of otherwise good guys who make bad decisions. The interview is with The Hangover Part II’s Bradley Cooper, but the actor with the piercing blue eyes would much rather talk about two of his co-stars: Ed Helms (of The Office) and a saucy capuchin monkey named Crystal.
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