Bradley Cooper spent six years developing Maestro as a film. Cooper wrote, directed and stars as Leonard Bernstein. He told Deadline’s Pete Hammond at Contenders Film L.A.
that he lost all sense of time making Maestro. “He died in 1990 and I swear I knew him,” Cooper said of Bernstein. “This movie has messed time up for me.
It’s bent time, it really has.” Cooper said his obsession goes back further than the time since he got the rights to Bernstein’s music and life from his family.
Cooper remembers asking Santa Claus for a conductor’s baton as a child, having seen it in Bugs Bunny cartoons. “I spent embarrassingly too many hours pretending I was doing that,” Cooper said. “I didn’t know it was called baton back then.
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