Bradley Cooper will be completely transformed into American director Leonard Bernstein for Netflix Master, an upcoming drama based on Bernstein’s life. The film will follow Bernstein’s marriage to Felicia Montealegre, and in the photos Netflix has released from the set, you can see that Cooper is very old in one of the shots, to the point that it is almost unrecognizable.
From the set of MASTER. pic.twitter.com/y3qsYILk6P
– NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) May 30, 2022
Earlier this year, Cooper confirmed to Variety that the film would begin production this month. The film is the first time Cooper has returned to the director’s chair since A Star Is Born in 2018, which starred Lady Gaga. For Maestro, Carey Mulligan of Promising Young Woman will star alongside Cooper as Montealegre. The film is expected to be released next year.
Bernstein was a conductor, songwriter, and pianist who lived from 1918 to 1990. His best-known work is West Side Story, a Broadway musical about two street bands by rival teenagers in Manhattan. of the 50s. The musical recently received a new theatrical adaptation, which we called surprising in our review.
In Star Is Born was Cooper’s directorial debut, and the film received great acclaim in 2018. To our critical enthusiasm, we said that the film was “a refreshing interpretation of this classic story of the show’s rise and fall, with up-to-date character work, fantastic performances by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, and a soundtrack that will stick in your head for days. ” The film received a handful of nominations for the 2019 Academy Awards, and took home the victory for best original song with “Shallow.”
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