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Updated June 14th, 2021 at 19:42 IST

Guillermo del Toro and Bradley Cooper spill the beans about 'Nightmare Alley'

Director and actor duo, Guillermo del Toro & Bradley Cooper spilled detail about 'Nightmare Alley' at a recent virtual conversation during the Tribeca Festival

Reported by: Arundhati Vivek
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The Tribeca Film Festival is currently on at the Tribeca Film Centre in New York till June 20, 2021. Director Guillermo del Toro and Bradley Cooper, who worked together on their upcoming film Nightmare Alley, recently got into a virtual conversation and shared some details. Read along to know all about the upcoming movie.

Guillermo del Toro and Bradley Cooper spill details about Nightmare Alley

The actor-director duo sat down for an hour-long conversation, as part of the Tribeca Talks segment, virtually on Zoom. Cooper and Del Toro said that working on this movie has changed how they will work on movies, forever. The latter said, “We were both concerned. Stopping was not mandatory back then, but we both felt if we don’t stop now and someone gets sick — we said, ‘we gotta stop.’ Nobody was expecting it. Everybody went to lunch and came back six months later;” sharing that they decided to take a halt on March 10, 2020.

During the break from filming, Del Toro directed one-third of the movie and shared the changes he had to make. The movie is adapted from the William Lindsay Gresham written novel of 1946 and has finally wrapped up shooting, in December 2020. It is set to release on December 3, 2021, produced by Searchlight Pictures.

Bradley said, “We have been making ‘Nightmare Alley’ for the last two and a half years. It was a unique experience, going through the pandemic, taking six months off and revisiting it. We not only become lifelong friends, but it was an artistic experience”. He further added, “Del Toro never imagined it would be as deep as it became. We started talking script and then this started mirroring our thoughts about life and the way we viewed the world. We entered strange, darker times that led to ‘Nightmare Alley’ for me and changed the way I view the world”.

Del Toro says, “Bradley and I connected also as storytellers, bringing everything we have. A director is an actor and an actor is a director. There is no separation of the craft…that took a while for me to get used to. I normally create and guide these little Fabergé eggs of movies, obsessively detailed. All of a sudden we were on an adventure. I will never shoot a movie the same way”.

Image: Guillermo Del Toro and Bradley Copper/Instagram

 

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Published June 14th, 2021 at 19:42 IST

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