Bradley Cooper almost quit 2013 movie the place Beyond the Pines, According to director Derek Cianfrance after receiving the revised script.

The director recently revealed to IndieWire at the New Directors/New Films Festival that he brought in screenwriter Darius Marder to rewrite “every word” of the film before filming began. .

However, Cianfrance claims that after reading the revised script, the “A Star Is Born” actor wasn’t happy with the changes to his character Avery, a cop who is shot midway through the movie. Killing a sympathetic thief (Gosling).

“I have given [Marder] The script, he had a lot of notes on it, and I kind of agreed with a lot of what he said. So we rewrote every word from 10 weeks to six weeks,” he recalls. “I remember giving Bradley Cooper a new script for ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ and then receiving his voiceover The message said, ‘Bro, I just wanted to let you know that I read the new draft and then I quit. ‘”

Cianfrance said Cooper was clearly annoyed that this was “not the movie we signed on to do.” Since Cooper’s appearance in the film partially financed the film, the director claimed to have visited the master actor in an attempt to persuade him to reconsider.

“I was moving my family to Schenectady the next day and the whole crew was there. Anyway, I had all the money,” the Blue Valentine director added. “I was like, ‘Can I come talk to you?’ So I went to Montreal and had a long conversation with him from midnight to 3:30 in the morning, and then I got him back on the line. It was just the last five minute [he was convinced]. I think he was just tired. He wanted to go to bed. “