Put Beyond Pines as a Director on Why Bradley Cooper Almost Quit the Film

Eva Mendes and Bradley Cooper in The Place Beyond the Pines

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the place beyond the pines Director Derek Cianfrance has revealed that Bradley Cooper was on the verge of leaving the 2013 film after rewriting the script.

The director, who also co-wrote the crime drama starring Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes, recently said IndieWire At the New Directors/New Films Festival, he brought in screenwriter Darius Marder to rewrite “every word” of the film just before shooting began.

However, Cianfrance once said A star is born When the actor read the updated script, he wasn’t very happy with the changes to his character, Avery, a police officer who kills a sympathetic thief (Gosling) midway through the film.

“I gave[Marder]the script and he had a lot of notes on it, and I kind of agreed with a lot of what he was saying. So we rewrote every word from 10 weeks to six weeks. “I remember giving Bradley Cooper a copy of the place beyond the pinesAnd the new text, and you receive a voice message from him saying: “Brother, I just want to tell you that I have read the new draft and that I am out of service.”

Cianfrance claimed that Cooper was frustrated because “it wasn’t the movie we signed him to do.” So the director said he paid a visit to Artist, band leader Hopefully the actor will change his mind, especially since the film was financed in part due to Cooper’s involvement.

“I was moving my family to Schenectady the next day, and the whole crew was coming there. I had all the money anyway blue Valentine The director added. “I was like, ‘Can I talk to you?’ “So I went to Montreal, had a long conversation with him from midnight until 3:30 in the morning where I brought him back. It was only in the last five minutes (he was convinced). I think he was just tired. He wanted to go to bed.”

Hollywood Reporter I have reached out to Cooper’s representative for comment.