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A strange phenomenon has developed during this award season run: people seem to be getting a schadenfreudian joy out of watching Bradley Cooper flounder at these various award shows after putting years of work into his film Maestro.
While Cooper has always seemed to be a genuinely decent guy and generally well-liked movie star, the dancing on his Oscar-chances grave has been widespread, at least as far as “Film Twitter” goes.
The reason that I think it’s happening has nothing to do with Cooper himself but rather the fact that people like to see celebrities lose. No more, no less.
It is strange, however, that seemingly cosmically brutal things keep happening to Cooper on the campaign trail, such as Rob Lowe — who has always seemed quite dim-witted, if we’re being honest — texting him TWICE to congratulate him for an award he lost.
“So [Robert] Downey does this amazing acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, and I’m so excited for him,” Lowe explained on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
“So I text him, ‘So glad you won! That was the most beautiful acceptance speech I have heard in a long time. Boy do you deserve it,’ and I hit it, and I realize ‘oh, s—, I just sent that to Bradley Cooper,’” he said.
“So then I was like, ‘Oh I gotta make it better,’ and I [write], ‘No, I meant that for Robert Downey Jr.,’ but that’s even worse! I’m making the guy feel worse!” he continued.
As for how such a mix-up could happen, Lowe claims that he “inputted the wrong numbers under the wrong names,” which feels like a more difficult thing to do. It would’ve been more believable if he said something like “I’ve got Robert saved as Bob in my phone and hit that instead of Bradley.”
Once wasn’t enough, however, as Lowe then did it a second time shortly thereafter.
“I did it again! I mistakenly sent another one to Bradley. Again,” he said, also explaining that Cooper responded by saying” “It’s fine, I like living vicariously through these mistakes.”
Robert Downey Jr., of course, is scooping up awards left and right for his performance as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, while Cooper has largely been shut out for both acting and directing awards for Maestro.