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The actor who has just shot his first film. maestro – will not present it at the very famous Venice International Film Festival, whose celebrations take place until September 9.
How can you not smell a protest in the Italian sun straight out of Hollywood? When 80 opense The edition of the famous Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 30 to September 9, some actors will miss the call, and voluntarily. Like Bradley Cooper, well and truly present in Venice… but on holiday. On Monday, August 28, just before the festivities kicked off, the actor was indeed photographed there on a boat alongside Irina Shayk. A cliché that, of course, revives rumors of a romance between them, but which first of all testifies to the motives of his trip, aiming more to charge his batteries than to promote his work.
A strike that continues
Bradley Cooper, who is making his first steps as a director, had to defend maestro, the first feature film in which he revisits the life of composer Leonard Bernstein, whom he is responsible for playing, in the official selection. That’s not counting the Hollywood screenwriters’ strike he joined in May, which the actors continued in July. The object of their mobilization. A reassessment of their remuneration, in addition to the control of the use of artificial intelligence in the process of creating cinematography. And who says that mobilization is the method of action? SAG-AFTRA, the union that oversees the movement, banned all of its members from filming during the strike and from participating in movie promotions.
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In addition to Bradley Cooper’s absence, there are other implications of the strike: the opening film, Challengers by Luca Guadagnino starring Zendaya was deprogrammed and then replaced Commander, a feature film by Italian director Eduardo de Angelis. A victory without an American star, therefore. If the union has agreed to a compromise with certain films. Ferrari by Michael Mann, which will include, for example, actors Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz; however, he conceded the directors’ presence at the festival for all the films.
Source: Le Figaro
