Bradley Cooper has credited Vince Vaughn's performance in Wedding Crashers with changing the way he views acting.
Starring Owen Wilson and Vaughn, Wedding Crashers was released in 2005 and told the story of two best friends who crash weddings in order to meet and sleep with women, no strings attached.
It was a critical and commercial success, earning $288 million on a budget of $40m.
Cooper played the villain of the piece, Sack Lodge, who plans to get married to Wilson's love interest, played by Rachel McAdams.
Improvisation was encouraged on the set, and that is something Vaughn certainly took advantage of, as according to Cooper, he would try absolutely everything when the camera was rolling without fear of failure.
In a conversation with fellow Oscar Best Actor nominees Cillian Murphy, Colman Domingo, Paul Giamatti and Jeffrey Wright, Cooper was asked about a moment with an actor that catalysed a change in his career. He responded:
“Up until that point, I was always just trying to get it right on camera. Be present and get it right. I’m watching Vince Vaughn destroy a scene, just crush it, and then he wants another take. It was the scene where the grandmother is shooting him, takes the gun out and he’s running out. He’s just like, ‘I want to do another one.” In front of everyone…this huge crew and lights and it’s so nerve-wracking…and it was his willingness to fail.
“Watching Vince Vaughn…this huge tough guy, funniest guy, quickest guy…I was just in awe of this human, this man just failing, just willing to try anything,” the Maestro star continued. “At some point he was just scatting and caught onto this thing and was doing this song. I loved seeing it, but clearly it wasn’t working. But it didn’t even matter. It was all of us watching this artist just explore with complete abandon. It was like a diamond through the middle of my head going, ‘That’s it! That freedom to just be absolutely willing to fail.’ It changed me forever. That was the moment.”
Oscar odds for Best Actor
The five aforementioned stars are nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for their performances in Oppenheimer, Rustin, The Holdovers, American Fiction and Maestro respectively.
To see their odds of victory, check out the link below:
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