Bradley Cooper gets existential: Facing death has made me more alive

April 17th, 2013

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Actor Bradley Cooper says watching his dad die of cancer forever changed how he views and lives his life. Bradley’s dad, Charles, died in 2011 after battling lung cancer for years. The harrowing experience made Cooper appreciate life more and made him more pragmatic about his own death.

“Watching him die, all of a sudden I was like, ‘Oh right, I’m going to die too,’ ” Cooper told the May 2013 issue of Details. “Here it is. It’s not in a movie. It’s not in a story that was told to me. It’s not driving by an accident or watching it on TV. It’s someone you love dying in front of you. I was like, ‘Okay. This is death. And this is going to happen to me one day.’ “

Bradley says the experience made him realize how useless it was to obsess over inconsequential things. “Now I just don’t sweat the sh*t, the small stuff,” says Cooper, 38. “My mind is just less busy now.

“There were so many times when I would sweat the small stuff. All through my life: High school. College. As an actor. My dad’s death allowed me to be more at ease with being myself. And if someone’s not going to like me, that’s just the way it is. I used to think, ‘Oh my God. I don’t want to make anyone not like me. I don’t want to ruffle any feathers.’ Now it’s like, ‘I’m just going to be myself and trust that.’ And I’m enjoying life more.”

Surprisingly, the Oscar nominee once dreamed of being a soldier or a ninja due to a morbid obsession with death. “I begged my father to send me to Japan until I was 21, so I could train to become a ninja,” Bradley recalls. “I was obsessed with soldiers, wanting to be a soldier.

“I wanted, in a visceral way, to comprehend mortality. I would constantly ask my father about God and existence. And then he was simultaneously showing me these movies like ‘Apocalypse Now’ and then ‘Platoon.’ All those characters seemed to know something. And I wanted to know that. I figured the only way to understand life was to have been through something like these soldiers had been through.”

Cooper, who asked his mom to move in with him after his dad’s death, says watching his father die was a priceless gift that gave him a big-picture view on everything.

“I exhale a lot,” says Bradley. “My mind is pretty clear. My father’s death had this impact on me. I think my father’s death addressed some of the fears or quandaries I had as a child about mortality. It was his parting gift to me.”

The never-married Cooper, whose career has skyrocketed during the past few years, wants to be a father someday.

“I really hope I have that experience in my life,” he says. “I saw how much joy fatherhood gave my own dad. So I hope it’s part of my journey. You go through stages in your life, and fatherhood seems like a natural stage.”

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