I am admittedly going into Bradley Cooper's Leonard Bernstein bio-pic Maestro with a chip on my shoulder due to my annoyance that Cooper bolted out in front and ruined our chance of getting to see a Leonard Bernstein bio-pic directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Jake Gyllenhaal -- actual Jews making a movie about a famous Jew, imagine that. (That big fake nose that Cooper is rocking remains A LOT to expect us to deal with.) That said the teaser trailer released today certainly makes the film look beautiful, and my feelings about Carey Mulligan -- playing Bernstein's wife, who had to put up with his gay infidelities -- reach to the Moon and back, so... I dunno. We'll see at Thanksgiving when the movie's out. You watch...
... and you tell me what you think in the comments. If it's good there's probably no way Cooper doesn't finally win that Oscar he's been pleading for for years (and no, I don't think he's overdue, as his Star is Born movie was and remains trash.) The fact that he might beat a openly gay man playing a gay man (Colman Domingo for the Bayard Rustin biopic) by playing a gay man while he is presumably straight? Don't get me started.
... and you tell me what you think in the comments. If it's good there's probably no way Cooper doesn't finally win that Oscar he's been pleading for for years (and no, I don't think he's overdue, as his Star is Born movie was and remains trash.) The fact that he might beat a openly gay man playing a gay man (Colman Domingo for the Bayard Rustin biopic) by playing a gay man while he is presumably straight? Don't get me started.
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Thank you RE: Stating the truth that Cooper's ASIB is trash. It's literally a copy and paste of the Streisand version, but with the man front and center, and yet Cooper didn't get accused of turning his into a cheap starring vehicle for himself like Streisand did...
Also, Cooper was only ever good in Nightmare Alley. I said what I said.
this looks dangerously like 'he was gay but his real love was for a woman'
but carey will get me me watching
[also agree on ASIB terribleness]
Have a kleenex honey! 🙄
@par3182 - ugh, just like Rocket man and Bohemian Rhapsody.
I know it's just a trailer but the glimpses of gay are all done in long shots and cutaways while showing the hetero up front. Hard pass.
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