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Nov 2023
33m 13s

Maestro with Bradley Cooper and Todd Phi...

DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA
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Director Bradley Cooper discusses his new film, Maestro, with fellow Director Todd Phillips in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses working with Bernstein’s children and how he was given the project, the practice that went into major performance scenes, and capturing the thought process of Leonard Bernstein while in ... Show More
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