Chris Cooper Adapts to Recognition
13.09 17:20 - Chris Cooper Adapts to Recognition
There are very few character actors who get the kind of reaction Chris Cooper does. Even before his name was more familiar to audiences, back when all you recognized was his face, you'd sit up in your seat when Cooper appeared in a scene, because you knew business was about to pick up.The Hollywood Reporter recently caught up to Cooper, who won an Oscar for his role in Adaptation, and who gives another intelligent, lived-in performance in The Kingdom, which will be released later this month. I felt sorry for Cooper, who has really paid his dues, when too few people went to see his unbelievable work in Breach earlier this year. It's one of the standout performances of 2007, so hopefully The Kingdom will jar peoples' memories and they'll pick up Breach on DVD, if only to watch Cooper at work.
Interestingly, however, Cooper says his work as goverment agents is probably behind him for a while:
"I'm really putting a moratorium on FBI guys, military guys, mean fathers and the like. It's odd. You do a film like I did, say (1999's) October Sky. After that film came out, practically all I got were hard-edged fathers. Even going back further with (1996's) Lone Star, then I'd get deputies or sheriffs. The scripts that come my way are the scripts that come my way. If they interest me, fine. It just so happens that I've gotten a lot of military men and FBI agents, and I suppose a lot of actors my age get that. But I've about reached my limit with those guys. It gets to the point where some of it becomes a little repetitive. I'd like to move on."Get more on Cooper's work and philosophies on acting and awards shows at The Hollywood Reporter, and look for him opposite Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman in The Kingdom beginning September 28th.
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