Bradley Cooper nearly left ‘The Place Beyond the Pines'

Bradley Cooper was once on the verge of quitting his 2013 crime drama film The Place Beyond the Pines after receiving a rewritten script.

The director of the film Derek Cianfrance revealed to IndieWire at the New Directors/New Films festival that when the shoot for the film was about to begin, he called screenplay writer Darius Marder to rewrite “every word” of the movie.

He recalled, “I had given [Marder] the script and he had a lot of notes for it, and I kind of agreed with a lot of what he was saying. And so we rewrote every word from 10 weeks to six weeks.”

However, he told the publication that Bradley disliked the changes made to his character in the updated script, “I remember giving Bradley Cooper the copy of The Place Beyond the Pines, the new script, and getting a voice message from him saying, ‘Bro, I just want to let you know I read the new draft and I’m out.’”

The Star Is Born actor plays the role of a police officer who killed a compassionate thief.

According to Cianfrance Cooper was discouraged because it was “not the movie that we had signed up to do.”

He could not afford to lose him as the film was partially funded due to Cooper’s involvement, “I was moving my family up to Schenectady the next day, and the whole crew was coming up there. I had all the money anyway,”

So he visited him personally to convince him to change his mind, he added, “I was like, ‘Can I come talk to you?’ So I went up to Montreal, and I had a long conversation with him from midnight to 3:30 in the morning where I got him back on. It was only in the last five minutes [he was convinced]. I think he just got tired. He wanted to go to bed.”

For those unversed, The Place Beyond the Pines was released in 2012, starring Rayan Gosling as Luke, the motorcycle stunt rider, two troubled teenagers Emory Cohen and Dane DeHaan, and Bradley Cooper as Avery, an ambitious policeman.