Growing up in the Philadelphia suburbs, Cooper got into his head that he wanted to conduct an orchestra someday. As he told me recently in an interview for The New Yorker Radio Hour, his most prized possession as a kid was a conductor’s baton. He used to flail his arms for hours at home to great symphonies. You can now see Cooper, aged forty-eight, on the podium at the Ely Cathedral, while the London Symphony Orchestra saws away at Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony.
When I made “A Star is Born,” I was only really able to make that movie with absolute freedom because I had been sober for so many years. For about twenty years, right? It’ll be twenty years in August. I made “Maestro” absolutely fearlessly, and I knew I had to because that’s a huge element in Bernstein’s music. It is fearless. In the last three to four years, I’ve arrived—by the grace of God—at a place of actually having self-esteem. I feel very comfortable in my skin.
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