![]() Ironically, despite it being one of his finest hours, the value in Cooper’s Rocket performance can be found in how much Guardians of the Galaxy 3 misses him for most of its runtime. It’s fair to say – after almost a decade with the character – Marvel has full confidence in Bradley Cooper. This is his movie, but that’s the sort of creative choice that could only be taken when a director has complete faith in his talent. There’s a galaxy’s worth of reasons, then, why James Gunn handed the baton over to Rocket for the Guardians threequel. His Dark World-adjacent scenes with Thor are among the movie’s best, his "only kind of gone" speech to the God of Thunder peppered with the sort of heavy emotion that – again – could’ve been a punchline or inherently ridiculous if Rocket was voiced by an actor that was only there for a piece of stunt casting. Lest we forget, Bradley Cooper’s Rocket was also afforded a decent portion of Avengers: Endgame to strut his stuff. In truth, the Guardians trilogy is filled with moments like that: Rocket screaming "don’t call me a raccoon" at Peter attacking Gamora because he can "only afford to lose one friend today" his panicked fear over Yondu delivering home truths. With Cooper, it’s a small window – one that wouldn’t even be explored for another two movies – into the trauma lurking behind his furry exterior. In lesser hands, it’s a line played for jokes. "You just want to laugh at me like everyone else," Rocket says after being confronted by Star-Lord. Rocket’s drunken outburst in the first Guardians movie is a great example of how brilliant Cooper’s performance is. Ever since the beginning, he’s been the Guardians’ low-key MVP. Looking back at the past decade, it’s been proven again and again that this isn’t just something Cooper has only deployed now the spotlight is firmly on Rocket. The broad New Yorker accent he puts on for Rocket hides just enough genuine warmth and loss to squeeze out even more from his tragic upbringing. Throughout the trilogy, it’s clear that Cooper has perfected an art in a way that so few Hollywood actors have achieved. Instead, you’re listening to a master of his craft. But there’s practically no tell which indicates this is Bradley Cooper. You only have to look at the sudden snap back to reality audiences received when Groot spoke 'English' – in what is clearly Vin Diesel’s voice – for the first time. There is often very little in the way of visual cues, performances delivered in a void can seem out of place once large on the big screen, and it sometimes can just sound like a big-name actor reading out lines of a script. Bradley Cooper shares his birthday with Clancy Brown and Shea Whigham.For one thing, it’s a performance so good that he completely disappears into it.Bradley Cooper was a producer on the DC Entertainment production Joker.Bradley Cooper worked again with Miriam Shor in Maestro. ![]()
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