Bradley Cooper wants to work with Jennifer Lawrence again 'but she is sick of me!'

By Baz Bamigboye for the Daily Mail

Published: 17:33 EDT, 24 January 2013 | Updated: 17:55 EDT, 24 January 2013

Jennifer fan: Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence — both Oscar-nominated for their sublime performances as mentally unstable characters who help to heal each other in Silver Linings Playbook — enjoy a chemistry that works on screen and off.

They’ve already shot a second picture together, a period drama called Serena.

‘I would love to do another one, but I’m sure she’s sick of me,’ Bradley said, sadly.

‘I’m sure we’ll work together again, but they’ll have to bring out a box set,’ Jennifer quipped.

The pair first met in a dance studio, where they rehearsed for dance sequences featured in Silver Linings, directed by David O. Russell.

Bradley explained that Russell wanted a sense of the retro-sexiness of John Travolta and Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, combined with the Moses Supposes scene in Singin’ In The Rain and the Forties film comedy Hellzapoppin’.

When they dance, they give each other heat — and it’s fun pinpointing the moment their characters fall in love.

Silver Linings’ eight Oscar nominations, including ones for Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver, are well deserved. Bradley noted that if it wasn’t for The Hangover and its sequel, he would probably never have been cast by Russell and producer Harvey Weinstein.

‘It’s the single most important thing that has happened in my career — it provided everything,’ he told me, adding that the multi-million dollar fees he received for the Hangover pictures has allowed him to take on risky projects and help friends bankroll small independent films.

He has just completed the third Hangover film, due for release on May 24, with Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms, and the drunken shenanigans continue in Las Vegas, scene of the first instalment.

‘There’s something magical about these three guys in Vegas and how they end up,’ he added.

But don’t expect a Hangover IV. ‘It’s goodnight to those guys,’ Bradley told me. ‘We’re not doing a fourth, no matter how much gets thrown at us.’

In any event, a week or so after the Oscars, he’ll play an FBI agent in another David O. Russell film, opposite Christian Bale, Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams.

Chemistry: Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper have both been nominated for an Academy Awards for their performance in Silver Linings Playbook

Bradley has also expressed interest in portraying disgraced cycling champion Lance Armstrong on screen, although he has not been offered the part. ‘I’ve just put it out there that I’d enjoy playing him,’ he said.

Then, in the spring of 2014, he’ll take the title role in Elephant Man for a six-month run on Broadway.

Returning to the stage keeps him sharp, he says. ‘When you’re on stage, you can’t re-shoot the scene or edit out something that goes wrong.’

Introducing Fleming's real-life Bond girls

They’re the women who stirred 007 creator Ian Fleming: the original Bond girls.

Actresses Lara Pulver, Annabelle Wallis, Anna Chancellor and Lesley Manville will play the women who influenced the author of the Bond novels.

Dominic Cooper will portray the man himself in the four-part drama Fleming, which Mat Whitecross is directing for Sky Atlantic, Ecosse Films and BBC America.

Fleming's flames: Actresses Lara Pulver and Annabelle Wallis will star in TV show Fleming

Leading ladies: The four-part drama will also see Anna Chancellor and Lesley Manville

Award-winning Manville, who has starred in several Mike Leigh films, portrays his indomitable mother, Evelyn.

Pulver, who played opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock and stars in the forthcoming series Da Vinci’s Demons, plays his wife, Anne. She and Fleming had a tempestuous sexual relationship.

Wallis portrays an early love, Muriel Wright, who was killed during the Blitz.

And Chancellor is the fictional Lieutenant Monday, who was the blueprint for Miss Moneypenny.

‘Muriel was his great love,’ explained Douglas Rae of Ecosse Films. ‘She was beautiful, and if anyone was a Bond girl it was Muriel. But she was killed during a bombing raid in the war.’

Fleming met Muriel on a skiing trip in 1935, but he was a notorious womaniser who was unable to remain true to her — something he was to regret after her death.

Fleming worked in Naval Intelligence during the war as a lieutenant commander and became assistant to Admiral John Godfrey (the model for M, to be played by Samuel West), the director of Naval Intelligence in the Admiralty.

Chancellor’s Lieutenant Monday is a conflation of several of Godfrey’s no-nonsense assistants.

Many of the counter-intelligence operations in which Fleming was involved during World War II found their way into his 007 thrillers.

Filming is already under way in Budapest. Other locations include London and Jamaica, the Caribbean island where Fleming built his dream home, Goldeneye — named after the code-word for one of his WW2 operations.

The drama, which was initially titled The Man Who Would Be Bond, will be shown on Sky later in the year.

It comes when popularity for all things Bond is at a phenomenal level, thanks to the extraordinary billion-dollar-plus success of Skyfall.

The film, starring Daniel Craig, has been nominated for five Oscars including Thomas Newman’s original score and Adele’s title song.

I revealed last week that Adele will perform Skyfall during the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on February 24.

The singing, all dancing Oscars

The Oscars show is planning a salute to movie musicals that could include some of the biggest names in the business.

Academy Award executives are hoping to persuade the likes of Meryl Streep, John Travolta, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway to participate in the celebration.

As I revealed last week, Samantha Barks is also expected to take part. Ms Barks — an extraordinary talent — plays Eponine in Tom Hooper’s Oscar and Bafta-nominated film Les Miserables.

She’s playing Nancy in the musical Oliver! in Bristol and the hope is that she will be allowed to leave the production early, so she can rehearse and take part in the tribute during the Oscars show.

Carol Reed’s 1968 movie of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! won the Oscar for best picture, so it’s possible a number from it could be performed — and who better to sing it than Ms Barks?

I gather that Mamma Mia! and Les Miserables will be included, which would mean the involvement of Streep (what a coup it would be to get her singing Abba), as well as Jackman, Hathaway, Barks and possibly Eddie Redmayne and Amanda Seyfried (who was also in Mamma Mia!).

Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who are steeped in the world of musicals, are working with the show’s choreographer Rob Ashford on identifying what songs, films and artists to include.

Watch out for...

Jack O’Connell, star of C4’s Skins, who will appear with Ben Mendelsohn (Dark Knight Rises and the forthcoming The Place Beyond The Pines) and Homeland’s Rupert Friend in David Mackenzie’s father-son film Starred Up.

It’s set in a prison where O’Connell will be incarcerated, and will be shot in Belfast in February, though it has nothing to do with the Troubles.

Zrinka Cvitesic, a celebrated Croatian actress, who has secured the leading lady role in the musical Once. It’s about a Dublin-based street musician, played by Declan Bennett, who falls for a Czech immigrant.

It’s about how love and cultures clash. John Tiffany directs in a way that allows characters to express themselves in an illuminating way.

Once will run at the Gaiety in Dublin from February 22, before moving to the Phoenix, London, from March 16.

Michael Feast, Philip Arditti and Paul Rattray, who will star in Arthur Milner’s hard-hitting play Facts, which is set in an Israeli interrogation room.

Producer Daniel Brodie and director Caitlin McLeod, making their professional debuts, are taking the show – a thriller - to the Finborough Theatre from February 26 through to March 23.