Bradley Cooper Loves a Man He Never Met More Than He Did His Newborn Daughter

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | February 29, 2024 |

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | February 29, 2024 |

Bradley Cooper gets a lot of flak around here (a lot), but I am Team Emma: He’s a good-looking guy, and I have liked him in everything I’ve seen him in. I’d like to keep it that way, which is why I haven’t watched Maestro.

This is probably going to get me in trouble for saying so, but about a decade ago, Anne Hathaway got a lot of shit for being too earnest and giving off a lot of theater kid energy, but now people love her for it. Just wait ten years, Brad: Your weakness will become a strength! The guy makes decent films, and he’s helped a lot of Hollywood folks with their sobriety. Sure, he’s human flop sweat during Oscar season, but so what?!

Still, he’s probably still going to get dragged for the way he sometimes articulates things. Like, for instance, the Internet enjoyed making fun of him for crying over how much he misses Leonard Bernstein — a man he’s never met — in front of the kids of Leonard Bernstein. That is some strong theater kid energy. But then he turns around and tells Dax Shepard on the Armchair Quarterback podcast that, as much as he may have loved a man he never met, it took him eight months after her birth before he loved his own daughter, Leah.

“The first eight months — I don’t even know if I really love the kid,” Cooper told Shepard. He couldn’t understand, at the time, why people would say things like, “I would die in a second for my kid.”

But then his feelings shifted. “That’s my experience,” Cooper continued. “Fascinated by [parenting]. Loved taking care of [her]. But would I die if someone came in with a gun? … But then all of a sudden, it’s like, no question.” Boom: A year later, and “It’s dope. It’s cool. I’m watching this thing morph.”

Who is holding a gun to a baby’s head? Jeez!

Anwyay, I don’t remember which celebrity said it, but I’m sure it was a man because only a man could get away with it, but it was something like, for the first six or seven months, a baby is just an adorable blob that doesn’t contribute much to society. (Fact Check: It was actually Angelina Jolie). The baby wants and wants and wants, and it never stops wanting, and all it can offer in return is poop and an occasional smile that might actually be the baby passing gas. I mean: What’s to love? Maybe it takes some time for that parenting instinct to kick in for some people.

No hate, Brad! I’m sorry he won’t win that Oscar this year, even after 12 nominations. But he’ll get there, and it’ll probably arrive in the least expected way, like when Leo finally got his for being mauled by a bear. Just keep grinding, Brad, and one day you’ll be celebrated for being attacked by a wild animal!

Source: Armchair Expert