“He emotion bombs the entire movie,” says actor Rege-Jean Page.
Warning: This article contains spoilers fromDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
(Unless you caught the film at SXSW.
Justice Smith, Chris Pine, Sophia Lillis, and Michelle Rodriguez lead the cast of ‘Dungeons & Dragons’.Aidan Monaghan/Paramount Pictures and eOne
In which case, the cat’s out of the bag!)
Cooper, however, was a late addition.
In short, Fletcher did the crew a solid.
Filmmaker Dexter Fletcher; actor Bradley Cooper.Jeff Spicer/WireImage; Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
However, the COVID-19 pandemic made that challenging.
“Anybody who was willing to come to work with us had to endure a quarantine in the U.K.
So it limited some of the choices we had,” Goldstein says.
He knew the realities of the ask going in.
“He was great,” Daley notes.
When Daley was 19, theFreaks and Geeksalum acted on the short-lived Fox seriesKitchen Confidential, which starred Cooper.
The two remained in touch.
“We sent him a rough cut of the film and fortunately he really responded to it.”
Part of the gag was the size discrepancy between the pint-sized Marlamin and the hulking Holga.
The filmmakers first shot Fletcher on a giant chair.
Upon observing the cut of the scene, Daley says they realized “it wasn’t as provocative.”
“It wasn’t as instantly disparate in his size compared to Holga,” he adds.
So they made the chair “30 percent bigger” for Cooper.
“Like, eyes as deep as the ocean.
He just kind of emotion bombs the entire movie.”
“My heart ached for both of your characters.”
“‘Cause for a moment there I think everybody is not thinking about the character within the movie.
They’re just seeing Bradley Cooper, this iconic actor, celebrity on screen.
And I thought that was kind of really funny.
It was really cute.
It was a funny moment.”
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thievesis playing now in theaters.
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