Bradley Cooper

And I just love the culture and the world, and I thought there's so much tangible stuff there for me to get excited about cinematically and story-wise.

But really, it's like...

It could have been anything.

Just something that he'd never done that he had put himself out there and that in doing it and doing it, he just sort of gets more comfortable, you know, and then the mic comes off the stand and then he's leaning against the wall.

And by the end of it,

And then the way it was structured, it allows him to do that vampire set at the end of the movie where all he's doing is exercising what he's feeling emotionally because he's comfortable in this setting.

Yeah.

Because the old him, when he has that fight with her in the attic, he just would have kept that all inside.

And he would have been catatonic at his kids' assembly where we meet him in the beginning of the movie because you just don't know what to do with all that.

But if you have an outlet, something expressive...

you can exercise it in a healthy way.

So that really was the point of that whole part of it being stand-up comedy and open mic.

No, no, no.

Who knows?

Also, just think about the audio.

Because you're going to hear your voice through the echoing.

It can't be just in it.

So I imagine there's an echo.

So you're not only bombing, but you're hearing it.

Reverberate.