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Bradley Cooper rolls up his sleeves for ‘Burnt’
LINDSEY BAHR This photo provided by The Weinstein Company, shows Bradley Cooper as Adam Jones, in a ing an eye on everyone’s
AP Film Writer scene from the film, “Burnt.” The movie opens in U.S. theaters on Oct. 30. technique. The actors felt
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brad- the stress and the pain of
ley Cooper wasn’t a nov- Associated Press working in a real kitchen
ice to the kitchen when too — sometimes literally,
he decided to take on the ing a third Michelin star. stormy Gordon Ramsay? they look ridiculous.” with cuts and burns.
role of the fictional Michelin Whatever knife proficiency Cooper trained alongside When it got down to shoot- “That’s real sweat. My eyes
star chef Adam Jones in he thought he had wasn’t Claire Smythe, execu- ing, they chose the au- were bloodshot for half the
“Burnt.” exactly going to cut it un- tive chef of London’s Res- thentic over the artificial, movie. It was all real. For an
He grew up in a food loving der the scrutiny of profes- taurant Gordon Ramsay, shooting in a real, function- actor, that was amazing.
home near Philadelphia — sionals. In “Burnt,” out Oct. which has three Michelin ing kitchen and making There was no stunt double.
some of his favorite memo- 30, not only is Adam Jones stars, for “many, many ser- real dishes. Everyone who There was no insert of an-
ries are of his grandmother a savant in the kitchen; he’s vices,” said director John wasn’t a named actor in other person’s hands,” said
making pizza, cheesecakes also got a drug habit that’s Wells. “All the actors had to the room was actually a Cooper. “It’s all me, for bet-
and homemade raviolis. left him an exile in the world spend the time to get flu- cook in a Michelin-rated ter or worse.”
He was a bus boy at a of haute cuisine. While the ent in the craft — not fluent restaurant, and BBC TV Being No. 1 on the call
Greek restaurant there, a drugs are under control for enough to serve 100 meals, Master Chef presenter Mar- sheet isn’t unlike being the
waiter at a fancy estab- the moment, his temper but fluent enough where cus Wareing was behind head of a kitchen, too.
lishment near Georgetown is another story. Who bet- someone else who knows the camera, both design- Cooper needed to set the
University, and a prep cook ter to learn from than the how to do it wouldn’t think ing the menus and keep- tone of the operation.
at an Italian and seafood “He did exactly what any
place in Somers Point, New director would want him to
Jersey. do. He was fully prepared,
One day, he said, he cut had done all of his research,
and cleaned 620 chickens knew all of his lines and
and nine boxes of peppers showed up ready to work
in addition to making the and was as demanding as
dough and sauces. Adam,” said Wells. “He was
But he didn’t tell anyone the first person on the set
that when he started rub- and the last person off.”v
bing elbows with the Mi- The seriousness with which
chelin caliber cooks he Cooper approached the
needed to learn from for role reminded Wells of an-
this role. other actor he’d worked
“They wouldn’t have with recently: Meryl Streep.
cared,” said Cooper, He remembers showing
laughing. Besides, he need- up for a read through of
ed to get down to work if “August: Osage County”
he was going to believably and Streep was already off
portray this top chef seek- book.q
‘Suffragette’ embodies its
message of equality for women
SANDY COHEN finds herself becoming an untold, imagine how many In this Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015 photo, Sarah Gavron, left, director
AP Entertainment Writer activist despite the risks of millions of women’s stories of the film “Suffragette,” and cast member Carey Mulligan pose
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For being part of the volatile there are for us to tell.” together at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles.
actress Carey Mulligan, movement. The film shows With her female-centric
“Suffragette” was un- the women holding rallies subject matter, cast and Associated Press
like any film she had ever and starting fires — and creative team, “Suffrag-
made: The writer, director, getting beaten, jailed and ette” director Sarah Gav- in an extraordinary way. action as a result of it and
producers and most of the tortured; socially ostracized ron has made a film that But you don’t just want that not just a lot more noise.”
cast were women. and unemployed, as a re- embodies its message to be a one-off.” Other than Maud in “Suf-
“It was a unique experi- sult. about equality. Given the level of aware- fragette,” Mulligan hasn’t
ence. I’m used to being There was little studio inter- ness about the gender yet seen a move toward
the only girl in a room,” Mul- est in telling the story — and “Between one to 10 per- disparity in Hollywood, Mul- equality reflected in the
ligan said. “And it needed that points to the problems cent of films are made by ligan said the industry is parts she is offered. So far,
to be a female team to get women continue to face in women— often it’s more compelled to respond. she said, “it’s still been a
it made in the first place, Hollywood today, Mulligan like one percent — and “I think it’s gotten to the bucket load of boring girl-
because it wasn’t going to said. film is a way we put a mir- point where people can’t friend roles.”
happen if it wasn’t a group “A woman threw herself ror up to our lives,” Gavron ignore it now,” she said. “Suffragette” opens Friday
of women pushing it uphill, in front of a king’s horse said. “So by making this “And there probably will be in the U.S.q
because no one wanted to in 1913 and changed the film and having a woman
tell the story.” course of history, and no producer, writer, director,
The story is of women’s one in 100 years felt this so many heads of depart-
fight for the right to vote was a story worthy of the ment behind the camera,
in Britain in 1912. Mulligan big screen,” she said. “If this and then all those women
plays Maud, an ordinary, monumental moment can in front of the camera, we
working-class woman who go undocumented and were shifting the balance
