Oscar-nominated Hollywood actor Bradley Cooper, who is currently seen in Guillermo del Toro’s neo-noir Nightmare Alley as Machiavellian carny Stanton Carlisle, marks his first time doing full frontal nudity in a film.
In a talk with The Hollywood Reporter, Bradley Cooper mentioned the decision to appear naked was made for purely artistic reasons and that the script demanded it. “Because the content of what the movie is, what we were exploring, in order to do it in a real way, it demanded that we’d be naked emotionally and soulfully,” he said.
For a bathtub sex scene, the script called for Bradley Cooper to be bare body with full frontal and partial backside nudity during the scene that finds Stanton Carlisle engaging in a sexual act with Toni Collette’s character. Deciding to go completely nude on camera was a first for Cooper and he did not take it lightly, calling it “pretty heavy” admitted it being “a big deal”.
On Kim Masters’ KCRW show The Business, Cooper recalled the awkward experience but expressed no regrets about the finished product. “I remember reading in the script and thinking, he’s a pickled punk in that bathtub and it’s to story. You have to do it,” he told Masters. “I can still remember that day just to be naked in front of the crew for six hours, and it was Toni Collette’s first day. It was just like, ‘Whoa.’ It was pretty heavy.”
He added that he never pushed back on it at all, “because there was nothing gratuitous about it. It was to story.”
Bradley Cooper went through an intense period of preparation to understand his character in the film. “It really is akin to putting on a miner’s kit, hat and flashlight, and looking at each other and then going down in the tunnel,” he told Kim Masters.
“Knowing that you may be excavating a route that won’t ever get you to the end that day but you come back up and go down again the next day.” he added.
Nightmare Alley is a 2021 neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro based on the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham. The film stars Bradley Cooper and Toni Collette alongside Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen and David Strathairn.
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