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Brad Pitt is honoring his longtime friend Bradley Cooper!
The 60-year-old Oscar-winning actor was on hand to present the 49-year-old actor with the Outstanding Performer of the Year award for his role in Maestro, which he also directed and co-wrote, at the 2024 Santa Barbara Film Festival on Thursday evening (February 8) held at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, Calif.
In his speech honor Bradley, Brad joked that that the duo have a “couple of things in common,” including “being a movie superstar and also a name.”
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Brad went on to note that he knew Bradley was special after watching his work in The Hangover.
“You’ll see the more irreverent that Alan [Zach Galifianakis] gets, the more that Phil [Cooper] is enjoying that irreverence,” Brad said, via People. “It’s subtle. It’s often to the side of the frame, but it’s there and it’s interesting, and I know this sounds strange, but I was watching that and I know no one else would have brought that to the to the table. And it was something fresh. I knew this guy was going to be around.”
Brad also spoke about Bradley‘s 2018 directorial debut A Star is Born, which he also starred in and wrote the screenplay for.
“[It's] a film that’s been made a few times, it’s been made really well, so the bar is so high, and yet he’s able to bring in his performance where he’s able to play drunk when he breaks down and still keep an eye on the crew to see the time when to know that he’s got the tape and you can move on,” Brad raved. “To do that really, really well is nothing short of perfect.”
Brad then talked about Maestro, calling it “a masterwork.”
“Now I’m not gonna say I know for certain what’s at the heart of Bradley’s brilliance, but I am going to take
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