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
"Yeah, just hold on, I gotta get somethin' in the fridge."
Yeah, and just set it on the table, leave, do your grocery shopping...
Go to bed...
Yeah, and this person's just sitting there.
Yeah.
How did you get the Lonely Planet gig?
Oh, that was great.
I've seen some clips from it. It looks amazing.
My commercial agent, when I was out in New York, I was still in school, and they sent me on this audition, an open call. The thing was, you know, "We're looking for a person willing to do extreme treks but not without experience, but has to have extreme sensibilities," or something like that. So, I had to make up this trek that I went on and I made up this whole thing that I went to Indonesia in hunt of the, like, Komodo Dragon or something, and I made up all this bullshit. Then I got called back, and they were like, "Okay, we want to film you and you have to make up a trek in Central Park." So, I -- and I had never even slept in a tent before -- I grew up in, just barely, the suburbs of Philadelphia. So I borrowed all my buddies' camping stuff, like a backpack and boots. So, I went and did this thing and it was like one of those days where you don't care about anything, so it kind of all flowed, and they really dug it. And they were like, "Okay, we're sending you to Canada to do a biking trek through Newfoundland and sea kayaking with Orca whales in British Columbia and canoeing down the Bonaventure River in Quebec." And I was like, "WHAT?" "And you have to sign a five-hundred-thousand-dollar life insurance policy!"
Oh my god. And you're like, "You're gonna pay me, right? RIGHT?"
And then, cut to, like, fourteen episodes later and I'm, like, climbing glaciers in PERU.
[laughing] What an amazing fucking experience!
It was really crazy.
I mean, you got PAID to do that, dude!
Yeah, it was really out of control.
I wish they would show it again.
I know! It used to be on the Travel Channel but I guess they didn't renew it again.
Well, that's all the Discovery Channel family. So, it might resurface now that you're doing Alias. Like, they might think that they can bank on that or something. I would love to see that.
Well, you never know. It'll be some funny stuff. Oh, god...
Oh, god.
Uh, yeah.
Heh. You entered the masters program at the Actor's Studio after graduating from Georgetown where you where an English major, right?