Bradley Cooper

Because I was like, when do you have an opportunity as an actor to actually do the thing you're preparing to do?

Right.

And think about how much that would cost.

You can go into a room where there's real people.

And then every step that you're taking, you're in a club.

So he did that.

And then when we went back to New York, he did it like three times a week.

four or five times a night for like six weeks.

Wow.

Just so he could understand what it's like.

And some people didn't know who he was.

You know, you get a lot of tourists come into New York City and there were nights where you knew that he, when he said Alex Novak, they're like, cool.

Right.

Not like you're not Alex Novak.

Right.

You know, they're like, okay, let's see what you got.

And so that was really, that was really great.

He wrote it with this guy, Mark Chappell.

It was a movie that was more about his, based on this guy, John Bishop, who's a real comedian, is a very successful comedian in the UK.

And he, Will met that guy on a barge somewhere and he was talking about his story and he was like, yeah, I was doing something else.