Bradley Cooper was 'terrified' for TV debut in 'Sex and the City'
Bradley Cooper made his on-screen debut during season 2 of Sex and the city – and at the time he was 'terrified'.
Cooper, now 49, reflected on his very first role during a Question and answer on Thursday, February 8 at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, where he accepted an award for Outstanding Artist of the Year.
“I still remember: I was Jake, the downtown smoker,” he recalled of his performance, where he played a short-lived love interest of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker). “I auditioned for it, but at the time I didn't really realize that you could ever get the job. To be honest, I thought I had a job as a doorman at Morgans Hotel and then I was lucky enough to audition.
The actor was “terrified” after landing the gig and at the time thought, “What do you mean I actually have to do it?”
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Thanks to YoutubeAfter figuring out he could drive with a stick shift, he attended Models Driving School.
“I still screwed up,” he continued. “So they let someone else drive the car and I just had to pretend we were stopping.”
Cooper's first acting gig ended up being “a lot of fun” alongside the “incredible” Parker, now 58. In season 2, episode 4, Cooper appeared as downtown party boy Jake. The pair meet at Beauty Bar, a real nightclub in New York, after a terrible photo of Carrie ends up on the cover of New York Magazine.
The iconic episode is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and Cooper said it made him feel “old,” joking, “S–t, I've been there, dude.”
Cooper's little lie about not being able to drive a stick actually got the episode changed. Director and writer Michael Patrick King has spilled all the details about what exactly happened to Cooper and the Karmann Ghia sports car on “And just like that… The Writers Room Podcast” in 2023.
Max's attempt to revive Sex and the City as And Just Like That has generated a lot of headlines. Sex and the City, which premiered in 1998, focused on Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her dating life in New York along with her friends Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Samantha (Kim Cattrall). After […]
“Four o'clock in the morning, another Friday outside 14th Street, and I said, 'Bradley, here you are driving, you're leaving.' And he says, 'I can't drive a stick,'” King said. “And so we fixed, changed and pivoted,” he said. “Sarah Jessica's character Carrie crawls out of the Karmann Ghia and walks home herself.”