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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
- 0:03Speaker 2: When you're the literal star of a movie like Cooper
- 0:05Speaker 2: Hoffman was and the Oscar nominated Liquorice Petz and its
- 0:07Speaker 2: director the Paul Thomas Anderson, make some calls to set
- 0:11Speaker 2: you up with your next movie. Gegy probably guests another
- 0:13Speaker 2: high profile movie, right.
- 0:15Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, that would make the most sense, hey, But.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Paul went in a different direction, securing Cooper the very
- 0:21Speaker 2: unglorified job of PA. That's a production assistant.
- 0:24Speaker 3: Which is basically like the lowest on the totem pole
- 0:27Speaker 3: on a set, but where a lot of people start
- 0:29Speaker 3: out in Hollywood.
- 0:30Speaker 2: And Cooper explained to The Hollywood Reporter why Paul thought
- 0:32Speaker 2: it was a good fit. Paul his best friends and
- 0:34Speaker 2: a regular collaborator with Cooper's dad, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.
- 0:38Speaker 2: So Paul looked out for Cooper and realized he might
- 0:40Speaker 2: get an inflated ego after starring in a movie so
- 0:42Speaker 2: early on.
- 0:43Speaker 4: So Cooper's next role was covid PA on Steven Spielberg's
- 0:48Speaker 4: movie The Fableman's Swaben Noses of the cast and crew,
- 0:52Speaker 4: and he kept a low profile until Steven Spielberg found
- 0:55Speaker 4: out and marched towards him.
- 0:56Speaker 2: He had no idea how the meeting would go, but
- 0:59Speaker 2: Stephen had one important message to deliver. He loved licors, pizza,
- 1:02Speaker 2: Coop's nepovie I Want Your Sexes now playing.
- 1:04Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood