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it sounded like you knew from a very early age
what you want to be doing for a living in fact a childhood friend of yours told
the Times that used to have
I sleepovers we'd stay up and watch Apocalypse Now
as it yeah hatched how old were you at the time
was four I
yet that that's my buddy Brian Klugman right
other yeah I the hooha
who we said yeah my father was a huge said if I lived across the street from a
movie theater in
so raging bull was one of the first movies and and
so I started to expose all these films like Apocalypse Now and deer hunter in
and he and I will talk about all the time we had this great idea we thought
was a great idea to do a
aid night I love vietnam and
it started out we're gonna open it up where the Apocalypse Now
and then just ease right into the dear hunter I can finish it up with hearts of
darkness
which was the documentary that coppola's wife made I've
about us now I think they're like 8 p-4
from that we had side which eats around the high school we thought I was gonna
be like a mob scene at my house
I was like I N people came and mostly because they thought maybe they heard
that maybe we're gonna drink some wine or something
I break into the liquor cabinet um
and I remember we were like halfway through your liking the wedding scene at
the dear hunter
like not even that you know a third into the night everybody was asleep
big over a million Ryan I ever say they're like you know
kilgore you know so funny how did that had an alias come up with that
alias was um you know one of those thank you
yeah it's a great show now made some lifelong friends not so boy
while is arm that was just one of those
800 auditions a week I went on I'm and as for so-called alias they said
the big thing was when like you know the creator came is coming to town
you know and it would be you know whispers would go around the Hogs to be
waiting along the hall like
American Idol -style to go in on these things
and every week change Prince as a teacher who
soliciting publicity physics I don't know I love most about you
I regarding Henry when he was 18
all really oh wow I like them all I'm
so I walk in and he was there and I just started I don't know we like clicked
I and everybody was like gramm the pencil rather pencil
and we were we we just that we were just doing well he wasn't will
tipping at the time his name was Sam clay was the character's name
and for some reason I just on this thing on the so-called the street where I
played claimed he was a cokehead
and I was like hike however even saying to mama why the ball sales like hey man
maybe is not clay
I 00 really is that what is not I wrote the pilot
yeah tell me that he's not playing okay thanks guy
up but he was working the base and then I they flew me that said to Los Angeles
and I tested for it and then a and I got it so I stayed out there but I remember
when I got it they were like
if they were testing for that character and the ball on character the same day
so we're all all around and I remember there was this guy I thought this is the
coolest guy I've ever met
he's like you just got back from a snowboarding trip it like long hair
handsome shit I anyone spreads her
obviously was Michael Vartan yeah I was like well
I remember we're outside as smoke a cigarette and he is that we both looked
like that he said I'm
he's a guy gotta tell you man is like a we both can get it we look like brothers
either 33 yeah
I we do know it I thought I'd also to Michael
I on to the same thing I
we both well they've got to get at me actually like and
they're like look you guys look too much alike so I was okay I can wait
okay how do you wonder they're like so Michael used exactly the way you look
hot I rather have they were gonna bleach your blog
curled up in your word glasses a
I why actual talk about our wedding crashers a little bit
Vince Vaughn and that movie oh my god I and knowing Jesus
I mean is it is it a anyway unmixed blessing when you get a row like that in
the sense that you know when you when you go opposite those guys you know your
you know you're not the one going on with Rachel McAdams it can then I found
again with yeah
no right Reino you're gonna be the 4 I'll to them oh you mean
yeah but yeah you that some I was honored I couldn't believe it
you understand I was just playing the guy who was sayin hey how was your trip
you know flipping pancakes you don't think it's easily you know banker
right to get into that to go you know the nicest guy in the world will dip
into
all the sudden playing the sociopathic I
sacco odds me I you know I still remember that audition I was um
I was playing Johnny Cash's cocaine blues i think is the song and
and and I was driving there and I read the script that this characters amazing
but I'll never get it because all the %uh this is I was going on people were
saying
bradley's such a nice guy so yeah he was so sweet on that show
I so he's a really right for this
is no edge and that was what it always was
and and so when I got to play this guy and David Dobkin
I maybe never saw alias I don't know but I am I know something just clicked and
he was laughing so hard ever using on the floor
laughing and and he said told me in the room is that you got it man
you do you got the role and and I thought sometimes people to get excited
when you get home and get on the right
did been he really did I you know I owe a lot to do but I've
get a top near hunter with walking at all over there are things for this
country under I still know what we were saying to each other
I it's like some sort of like a algorithmic
puzzle other words I don't know what that means but yeah I'm not walkin was
like
you know I remember we're like sitting in this but not vote actually
if they're like the weather was with was one day there's something with the
weather
and that we need to set the lighting is something we're sitting there market how
is where these like black pants and
suspenders and a and a wife beater in these shoes are the always work
a just sitting there is i bad day
I for I sodium Alice
you live in a big house Malibu
number Z a bradley because I
okay
he said a big house but I was and he was great area he was picketed
at about you know no other things we love about him he came into my trailer
not too much chillin wanted to go the the church scene at the end we have that
the serb face-off classic
stock up it's like and a and he was like
right now is it let's talk about alive how we can do the scene
talk about it I was like okay and and we were like
we we like worked on the scene and pitched at the David in the Rose really
I mean it was wonderful
name just became I think you're the first along this on the Actors Studio to
then be featured on the show does that experience like for it to be
you know to be the on the other side in to be the one you know probe like then
probe 28 baths adjusting rather well lived in this research writer
hopelessness
setting up an alien I I
yeah right that we are pro billions right its nose at least
0 I I'll was a question hold I
was the experience like for you by I unfortunately
have cried Allahu and it was very embarrassing I
a and I'm not a good crier in that I
loud and it's not like these this I like this things like to keep talking
brain so I didn't stop a lot I am
but I'm it was wonderful I mean I remember sitting like
if this was the state I was back there but behind the door
gonna hurt him leptin say you know
Bradley Cooper and then and knowing that I it's only my friends in the audience
that I went to school with my parents and
my father was sick at the time in and a
I just thought oh no I thought I i I I knew at that moment that I wanna love
and we will keep together
and then the whole time it was just turned into this very
moving moving experience much like this
yeah but it really was be really was something yeah I i felt very a.m.
a it was not lost on me the there was a
occurring the
them
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