Bradley Cooper

Stand up.

Well, first I thought, wasn't it a shadow?

But that was before.

And then I'm like, oh, yeah.

And then, yeah.

Then I was just in it.

Then all of a sudden I was there.

Then I was like, is Joe in it?

Does he know what I'm talking about?

And then as my brain started going, the movie kept bringing me in it.

Yeah.

And then by the end, by that push in, I was like, I'm just watching this guy look at this thing for the first time.

And then, fuck, look at this beast, Anthony Hopkins.

And I wrote, so I went to grad school, moved to New York, wrote him a letter because our dean said somehow he knew him or he had, the school I went to that I only got into because they let anybody in.

They did that show inside the actor's studio.

Do you remember that on TV on Broadway?

And so our thesis was the show.

There was like our, not like our, there was a class that, but it was a class, like technically a class.

And so all these incredible people would come on, and Anthony Hopkins was there, and I was there for that.

And then I wrote him a letter just telling him, and I asked James Lipton.