Three consecutive Oscar-nominated performances is no small feat, but that’s the surreal reality Bradley Cooper finds himself in.
Long before all that — on his first film set, no less — Cooper found himself in an arguably less glamorous circumstance: in a shed, in the rain, filming a rather realistic gay sex scene for 2001’s Wet Hot American Summer.
But if you think the American Sniper actor is tight-lipped about the encounter, think again.
During an appearance on Late Night With Seth Myers, Cooper waxed poetic about his career beginnings:
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“I remember we kept our socks on,” Cooper said, laughing. “Big tube socks. And we put [on] a lot of, you know, that sweat stuff, that glistening gel.”
He added that, “the joke of that scene was to make it like the one serious scene in the whole movie. The whole movie is jokes and then that one scene is dead [serious]. Shot seriously, lit well.”
He also recalled the anxiety shared with his scene partner Michael Ian Black on set. “We were both trying to pretend it wasn’t going to happen when we first met,” Cooper said. “I remember playing ping-pong with him knowing that the countdown to the sex scene is like two weeks away, pretending that everything is fine.”
The two reprised their characters for this year’s Netflix original miniseries Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp.
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Xzamilio
I will never not get hard watching the tool shed scene from Wet Hot American Summer.
Brian
Oh, go away, Bradley. Nobody cares about a role you did years ago. What are you doing now, by the way? Playing hetero roles to pander to your female following? It would be interesting to see if you can go back to playing a role where you have erotic relations with a man. I doubt Hollywood’s liberal studio bosses will let you.
dean089
I remember renting this movie but I do not remember this scene — and throughout the movie I was thinking that Michael Ian Black was kinda’ cute. I DO, however, remember laughing at David Hyde Pierce trying to play a straight guy.
Markajv
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Kieran
Of course they couldn’t actually show two men kissing on national TV because that would be icky. Homophobia. As American as apple pie.
David Andrew Roubideaux
Sexy Guy!
stranded
The movie was ok, just a little too dumb for me. But my god Michael Showalter was soooo cute. I thought he looked like a nerdy Dee Dee Ramone. It was quite a shock to see him in the sequel and see how much he’s changed.
Daggerman
..I really believe (mainly) heterosexual male actors are so willing to get down with another guy as part of furthering their careers…that makes me feel strangely very insecure about being gay..