'I was so worried': Bradley Cooper spent six years preparing for Maestro scene
Bradley Cooper spent six years learning how to conduct a six-minute piece of music for 'Maestro'. The 48-year-old actor directs and stars in the Netflix biopic as composer Leonard Bernstein and revealed the extreme lengths he went to for a scene that captures his character conducting the 1976 London Symphony Orchestra in Ely Cathedral. Speaking at a Q and A in New York City, Bradley said: "That scene I was so worried about because we did it live. That was the London Symphony Orchestra. I was recorded live, I had to conduct them. And I spent six years learning how to conduct six minutes and 21 ...