After reading the script Bradley Cooper nearly pulled out of The Place Beyond The Pines.
Speaking at IndieWire's Screen Talk live, Derek Cianfrance, who wrote and directed the movie, explained how close to the wire it went: "I remember giving Bradley Cooper the copy of The Place Beyond the Pines, the new script, and getting a voice message from him saying, 'Bro, I just want to let you know I read the new draft and I’m out.’
"He was like, ‘That’s not the movie that we had signed up to do.’"
"I was moving my family up to Schenectady the next day [to be on location] and the whole crew was coming up there. I had all the money anyway.
"So I went up to Montreal, and I had a long conversation with him from midnight to 3:30 in the morning where I got him back on. It was only in the last five minutes [when I convinced him]. I think he just got tired. He wanted to go to bed."
The 2012 film also starred Ryan Gosling as Luke, a criminal motorcycle stunt rider and Cooper as Avery, a policeman who confronts his corrupt police department.
The film with a budget of $15 million (€14.8m) made three times the amount at the box office.
