Bradley Cooper Role Rumors; Says No Truth to Lance Armstrong Role in Biopic
A Hollywood star is entwined in yet another game of telephone and this time, Bradley Cooper is the one disputing the original message.
Cooper, 38, was asked at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sun. Jan. 27 of his involvement in a film based on cyclist Lance Armstrong’s life.
The biopic would focus on the athlete's use of performance enhancement drugs and how he struggled with coming clean. J.J. Abrams reportedly already snatched up the rights to the film that will be produced through his production companies Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot. The movie will be adapted from a upcoming book called “Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong" by New York Times writer Juliet Macur.
At the Producers Guild Awards, Abrams told "Entertainment Tonight" Cooper sent him an email and they have been talking about the film.
Apparently this was all new to the “The Silver Linings Playbook” star, who said at the SAG Awards he was never presented with the idea and really has no interest in playing the troubled cyclist. Cooper told "Access Hollywood" he never expressed interest in starring in the project in spite of the rumors that suggest otherwise.
“No.”, Cooper laughed off the rumors. “Oh my God, that’s so nuts!”
Cooper debunked the rumor and told "Access Hollywood" how it all started.
“I was in Manchester, doing the BBC Morning Show. I had no idea what [the interview] was talking about...I didn’t even know that J.J. has the rights, I had no idea. I don’t know about anything.”
Cooper received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for “Silver Linings Playbook” and will go against Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh Jackman, Joaquin Phoenix, and Denzel Washington at the Academy Awards on Feb. 24.
