
Bradley Cooper Reveals Close Friend Eddie Vedder Inspired His Star Is Born Rocker

There’s no better man than Eddie Vedder to inspire a rocker movie character.
Bradley Cooper revealed at the Los Angeles premiere of A Star Is Born on Monday that the mannerisms and nuance he brought to his role as Jackson Maine was inspired by Pearl Jam’s lead singer. Fans on Reddit had been theorizing this was the case.
“I went up to Seattle and spent four or five days with him and I asked him 9,000 questions,” Cooper, 43, told Yahoo Entertainment. “And he gave me minor, little things that only musicians know about what to do, just aesthetically and the inner workings.
Bradley Cooper revealed at the Los Angeles premiere of A Star Is Born on Monday that the mannerisms and nuance he brought to his role as Jackson Maine was inspired by Pearl Jam’s lead singer. Fans on Reddit had been theorizing this was the case.
“I went up to Seattle and spent four or five days with him and I asked him 9,000 questions,” Cooper, 43, told Yahoo Entertainment. “And he gave me minor, little things that only musicians know about what to do, just aesthetically and the inner workings.
- 9/26/2018
- by Maura Hohman
- PEOPLE.com
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