Bradley Cooper wore a prosthetic nose to also look physically similar to Leonard Bernstein, the composer he plays in ‘Maestro’
Bradley Cooper He used a prosthetic nose to look more physically like Leonard Bernsteinrenowned composer who performs in Conductor. The makeup artist Kazu Hiro gave yet another justification for the choice: acquiring verisimilitude from the nasal voice that Bernstein had and which could be relatively imitated with nose devices (via People).
“We put a plug in his nose. He wanted to talk and sound like Lenny“, explained Hiro at the New York Film Festival, this Tuesday, 3. “The Nose of Lenny was wider than Bradleyso I widened it to change the shape of the nose and at the same time change the voice.”
Maestro Jamie Bernstein’s daughter was also impressed with the appearance of her ears. Cooper, which would have looked very similar to his father’s. According to Hiro, Bradley I spent up to 5 hours in the makeup chair when recording scenes that portrayed Bernstein at the end of life.
In addition to changing his look, the actor needed to learn a little about the work of conductors and, to do so, he had the help of a consultant Yannick Nézet-Séguin. “He’s a fabulous actor. His research is incredible, fantastic, detailed and deep,” he said Nézet-Séguin. “He came to me already knowing how to mime… But how can I make this believable and that he can be a maestro?”
“We didn’t start from scratch. It was more to give him technical security, while at the same time leaving him free to be Leonard Bernstein as an actor,” he added.
Source: Rollingstone
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