His ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ co-star Jennifer Lawrence may have walked away with an Oscar for her role in the film this year, but Bradley Cooper insists that he isn’t looking for awards when it comes to his performances and he even thinks that receiving an Oscar right now might actually be bad for his career and insists it would change “nothing”. He opened up:
“It would change nothing. Nothing. The things in my life that aren’t fulfilled would not be fulfilled. Career-wise, right now, it’s better that I don’t win one. I don’t want to win. I don’t.”
Bradley no longer consumes alcohol and although his reasons for quitting are painful he touches on the topic by stating that he was afraid of the way his life was going when he was drinking so he had to make a change in its direction in order to fulfill his potential in life. He realizes that he scared his parents when he first took up acting and he had to prove that he could do it:
“I had my reasons and I don’t like getting into it too much. I’m not going to say I’ll never drink ever again. I mean, who knows what will happen in the future? I just consider… What I will say is that my life was going in one direction and that terrified me. It scared the sh-t out of me. I knew I had to make some changes if I ever wanted to fulfill whatever potential I had as a human being. I felt a huge sense of responsibility to my parents, especially to my father. When I took out a loan to go to grad school to act I could see that deep down he was f—ing terrified.”
Speaking on his father’s death, Bradley says that it made him realize how real death is because someone in his life just disappeared:
“Death became very real. And very tangible. Because my father — someone who had been in my life for 36 years is just f—ing gone. I watched him dying and I was there by his bed watching him, breathing with him, and then I saw his last breath and he was gone. I experienced the whole thing. And that was a watershed moment that I was privileged to experience. And it changed everything.”
