“Guardians of the Galaxy 3” includes several moving, even poignant scenes, and for the most intense of them, actor Bradley Cooper drew on a tragic moment in his life.
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Bradley Cooper has been the English voice of Rocket Raccoon in Guardians of the Galaxy since the first film. During the third and final opus of the saga, released last May in theaters and since on DVD and Blu-ray, we finally explored the creature’s tragic past, in particular to explain why she had suffered physical torture.
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These sequences from the past lead to a better understanding of the character and his tragic journey. And to meet this challenge of transmitting the character’s distress solely through voice, Bradley Cooper was drawn from a very personal drama.
Guest of Howard Stern’s radio showthe actor returned to this very special moment in the film, the one where Rocket discovers that all his companions in misfortune who dreamed like him of freedom had been murdered:
There is this scene where he loses his friends, and the [cri] let it grow… The only thing I could hold on to was the one I pushed when I learned my father had left us.
“We remember these moments, and I remembered that in the studio, there was something profoundly true in what I released, and I think that’s why in the film, during At that moment, we say to ourselves: ‘oh goodness’.”
To hear this heartbreaking cry again, which indeed makes the scene very moving, click here:
Now that the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy is finished, its director James Gunn has left Marvel for DC, and is now working for Warner to create a reboot of the universe of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman of which he is the big creative boss with Peter Safran.
In which film will we see The Guardians again? No fourth episode has been announced yet, so it is likely that their return will now take place in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, which could bring together all the Marvel superheroes like at the time of Avengers: Infinity War . To be continued…
To see Bradley Cooper in the flesh again, wait for Maestro on December 20 on Netflix, in which he is unrecognizable in the skin of composer Leonard Bernstein.