Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT I know what turns Bradley Cooper on.
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 04.30.2003
Did you ever run into James Lipton?
Oh, he was our dean!
Is he as freaky as he seems to be on Inside the Actor's Studio?
He's great. You know, I really just have to say, as kooky as he is, and he IS kooky, he's a pretty great guy.
He's well-read, that's for DAMN sure.
He sure is. And he'll let you know it.
Heh. Come on, Bernard Pivot!
[silly French accent] "Bouillon de Culture."
He did the Ben Affleck one recently where he was like, "I like to end these sessions with the questionnaire given by Bernard Pivot --" And everyone just cracked up. And he was just like, "Okay, his name is Bernard PIHVAT. Okay? But he's FRENCH so it's 'Pee-voh'!" Like, I love that he is willing to make fun of himself.
Oh, totally! He totally makes fun of himself!
I mean, come on! You don't go on The Simpsons as yourself if you don't have a sense of humor.
No, he's great. He's really a great sport. And he got a great group together. I mean, he's the reason the group exists.
Yeah, no. He's kick-ass. I think we're almost done. Hmmm. If you could meet any hero, living or dead, who would it be?
Daniel Day-Lewis.
Really?
[quietly] Yeah, I love him, man.
See, I love him? But he scares me.
No, I love him.
Everything I've seen him in, he just scares me.
No, his Gangs of New York performance is just like...whew...
Did you like Gangs of New York? I haven't seen it.
I did for him. I thought his performance was mind-blowing. It's what we all as actors should look up to because it was real, but at the same time, completely bold. I didn't think that he was acting ONE BIT OF THAT. I thought that he WAS that guy. You know, and I thought that it was just, such a powerful performance, and it was such a testament to what a performance can do, that I thought it was bigger than the movie, than everything. It was, like, he was the whole thing.
He's the kind of actor, as far as I can tell from his acting career, I mean, My Left Foot and stuff, he just absorbs the character and becomes it. It's not even method. It's just Daniel Day-Lewis. I mean, Unbearable Lightness of Being...
That's like Meryl Streep. I think Meryl Streep's like that, too. I mean, A Cry In The Dark? That performance?
That was on cable recently and I finally saw the whole thing.
What'd you think?