Conductor: Bradley Cooper asked Carey Mulligan to ‘open our souls to each other’; understand

One of the biggest bets of Netflix for awards season in 2024, as Oscar, Conductor premieres in the streaming catalog on December 20, 2023. During preparation for filming, Bradley Cooperdirector and interpreter of Leonard Bernsteinasked to Carey Mulligan (Felicia Montealegre) “open our souls to each other.”

It is worth remembering how, in real life, Bernstein It is Happy mountain they were married until the Chilean actress’ death, between 1951 and 1978. In an interview with Vogue, Mulligan It is Cooper They talked about the expectations they had before starting filming the biopic.

“I knew her ability. All I asked her was to please do the preparation with me,” the actor and director recalled. “I said, ‘Would you go down this path where we basically open our souls to each other?’ And she said, ‘OK, come on, I’m game.'”

Right away, Carey Mulligan explained how he went through “the most intense preparation I’ve ever done for a film,” like learning the accent of Felicia Montealegre and research about her marriage to Leonard Bernsteinas well as a “dream workshop” with Bradley Cooper.

I think that Bradley He’s been doing this kind of thing forever, using his dreams to connect his own subconscious to the character’s, but it was new to me. But I had to bet everything.

Then, Mulligan talked about a “deep connection” the couple had in real life: “They lit each other up. You can hear it: there are tapes of them telling jokes and it’s like they’re dancing.” In fact, Cooper explained how Maestro is “a film about a marriage. A very complicated marriage.”