I’ve always thought that the chemistry between Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook had everything to do with JLaw’s acting. Bradley was fine. He’s simply not an Oscar-caliber actor. The Academy feels differently, so I won’t argue further.
This new story from Star is what happens when Jennifer Lawrence completely disappears from public life. The tabloids know that she moves copy, so they’re not about to let her get off scot free. A writer decided to make up a story based upon JLaw’s latest breakup with Nick Hoult. The tale adds to the drama by saying that Jennifer is falling into the waiting arms of Bradley Cooper, who has a serious girlfriend already. I guess we’re supposed to believe that Suki Waterhouse is bunking with BCoop’s mom, and he’s busy exchanging sexy texts with JLaw. In reality, Jennifer’s probably sending poop jokes to Bradley, and he’s replying “LOL.” Star’s story as written doesn’t sound true at all:
It’s America’s Sweetheart vs. Britain’s wild child! Since splitting from longtime boyfriend Nicholas Hoult earlier this summer, Jennifer Lawrence has found comfort in her frequent costar and paly Bradley Cooper — something his girlfriend, Suki Waterhouse, isn’t happy about. Pals say the model, 22, has always been jealous of her beau’s special bond with the 24-year-old actress but was recently pushed over the edge when she became single. “Jen and Brad have been swapping flirty text messages and calls,” spills an insider. “There has always been a spark between them.” Suki and Bradley, 39, were recently seen fighting when she confronted him on the set of his untitled film in London on July 31. “He insisted that he’s just trying to cheer Jen up,” says the firend, “but Suki is still very suspicious.” If Jen and Brad’s on-screen chemistry is anything to go by, she should be!
[From Star, print edition, August 25, 2014]
If Bradley and Jennifer were ever going to be a thing, they would have hooked up long ago. Instead, BCoop went out of his way to rationalize their platonic relationship by lying about not wanting to date younger women. We all know what happened next.
JLaw and BCoop are good buddies who have appeared in three movies together. We’ve heard that she wasn’t thrilled to lose her friendzone time when Bradley hooked up with Suki. That sounded believable, but the jealousy didn’t spring from romantic feelings. Jennifer missed her partner in crime. That’s all.
Photos courtesy of Weinstein Co. & WENN
I thought Bradley was fantastic in SLP; the only interesting about that film. I like JLaw but she just played another version of herself. IMO they were too eager to reward her (award her?). She’ll be doing better projects and roles.
*snicker* “Jen and Brad”. I’m sorry, I couldn’t help it. Anyway, Jen is a great actress and I think she’ll just get better. But I agree with your SLP assessment.
Silver Linings Playbook
While I like the idea of both of them together, I realize it is simply a spill-over of their on-screen chemistry from SLP. The reality is that he is likely closeted and uses a litany of starlets as his beards every few months, depending on the year.
Thank you. I feel like all these stories are just trying to push Bradley’s hetero-ness… and for me it’s just not working.
I just read she’s dating Chris Martin! Make up my mind!!!
I don’t see this atall. I also agree that his acting was amazing in Silver Linings Playbook. I haven’t seen her in a role where she doesn’t seem like a young quirky girl- another version of herself, and I don’t see her developing into a Meryl Streep. I get hetero vibes from him, and I think he just wants super young women, arm candy types.
I also prefered Bradley in that movie to Jennifer’s acting and haven’t felt much of a chemistry really. On a private note she just strikes me as Julia Roberts, the one with the need to be in the boys club. Meh. Also, new reports are about her dating Chris Martin. Goop’s gonna lose her shit if that’s true.
It’s fake. I doubt Suki cares enough to be jealous.
I could see how she might side-eye the relationship, but the story seems fake to me, too. How would they know all of that?
suki knows there is no way j law wants to live with mrs cooper
Lol, so true!
Zoe Saldana was willing to play “me-you-and-mommy makes three for about 10 minutes, do you really think a “wild no-brain-filter” girl like Jennifer would give that 3 seconds?
Also, with Suki, if the Bradley-Cooper-movie-star-status ever weaken, she’d be gone in a flash, right now it’s almost royalty for Paps attention and career boosting.
I think it’s fake, too….since Cooper and Lawrence spent tons of time together making Silver Linings (which, by the way, I thought was way over-rated and didn’t like that much), I’m sure they have a camaraderie and a few jokes between them. I personally don’t think Jennifer would want Bradley anyway….even his former wife, Jennifer Esposito, has slammed him by calling him cocky, arrogant, mean, and a master manipulator. It’s all about him. She said his personality could flip on a dime….Enough said. Good that Zoe moved on, as did the others. Maybe he’s just not the good guy he appears to be on screen.
Have never seen a movie Jennifer has been in, and do not have feels about her one way or the other, but Bradley Cooper gives me the creeps. He was likeable in Alias, but he screwed things up with Jennifer Esposito, and that makes him a dumbarse in my book (yes, I know, I know absolutely nothing about what really happened, but I love La Esposito). I hope that if they are hitting it, it’s a self-loathing hate f@#k for her that she will get out of her system. Been there.
Exactly how I feel. And I don’t buy it. He doesn’t seem like he’s strong enough to put up with her, or her strength is not something he looks for in partner (he seems domineering). Plus her starpower outshines his. I take it he likes his women (if he likes women at all) to be the submissive in the relationship. Dating a younger model, who I had never heard of before dating him, seems perfect for him. She’ll never be bigger than him and because models careers are over so quickly she’ll be dependent on him.
I second the “gives me the creeps” statement.
He’s never struck me as the kind of guy who can be trusted 100% in the love and emotions department. He strikes me as the kind of guy who can turn on you fast and make your life as unpleasant as humanly possible.
Now let’s talk about other celeb guys:
James Franco strikes me as painfully crabby when he doesn’t get what he wants. And he looks like he finds it very hard to understand another person’s point of view. (Like, you can talk until your blue in the face but he’s still not going to understand where you’re coming from)
Michael Fassbender strikes me as that super intense guy whose triggered easily by anger
(eg. he can’t just be annoyed or simply angry… he’s always P#SSSED OFFFF)
Chris Evans strikes me as wishy washy and a bit of a child, like how children require so much attention they tend to drain your energy.
(these are just random observations that have no foundation of truth in them,)
I would LOVE to hear yours!!
James Franco makes me think of an ex of mine who would lead on vulnerable girls hoping they would cheat on him with his best friend (I think I was the only one who didn’t) so he could write angsty (crappy) poetry about it. And then read it to the next girlfriend to drive her into the arms of his friend.
David Tennant makes me want to just make out with him furiously. Just kiss and get handsy for days on end. But not sleep with.
Most actors give me the ‘needy’ vibe, but my man is an actor so that vibe comes from a place called ‘reality’ that I live every damn day. And our children are actors, so help me goddess.
Charlotte
You scared me big time with your Franco observation. So, how did you find out about your ex? And was the friend in on all of this? Why did he go for vulnerable girls, as opposed to any other girl? So that he could unburden his ‘vulnerable’ poetry on them?
*shudder* I’m not going out tonight.
David Tennant.. Yeah!! I get you. I feel the exact same way about Domhnall Gleeson… Lol… I have been there, girl. I’ve said it all to prevent taking it to the next step. My classics are… “Ummmmmm, I forgot, I have an appointment/ I’m on the rag/made a spiritual pact with the full moon to be celibate/ feel so super gross/ am so turned on i need to take a long walk”
shaking my own head…. It’s terrible when the words “We can totally make out, but we’re not having sex” means next to nothing to men so we have to invent colourful lies.
He probably is trying to cheer Jennifer up with texts but I don’t think they’re flirty. The texts are probably immature “bathroom jokes” that 12 year old boys laugh at that will also make Jennifer laugh since that seems to be her sense of humor
Mags should stop trying to make them happen. They are not gonna happen.They have been in one rom-com together and didn’t have any scene together in American Hustle. People should let go of them.
Well, mags and Hollywood somehow made Bradley Cooper happen. I still can’t believe that bowl of douche-rice is A-list.
There’s another movie coming out with them – Serena. But I agree, they are not going to happen. Didn’t Jennifer tried to hook him up with her best friend?
There is another movie of them? Well that and her recent break up combined, there will be numerous articles about their “relationship”.
Or not. Did you hear of the Chris Martin rumour? Ugh, I can’t believe it! Nooo, Jennifer! Plus it’s really funny when you remember Bradley’s comment that he could be her father and now she’s eventually with Chris Martin, who’s 2 years younger than him.
I agree that the chemistry between Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper had everything to do with Lawrence’s acting….she was terrific in the film. As for the Star magazine article….baloney!. It just doesn’t ring true.
Indeed. To be honest, I would much rather see Cooper hook up with JLaw than with his current way-too-young-for-him girlfriend. Nothing against Waterhouse, mind you…it’s just so…..cliche. But you can’t just write it and make it so. The Sun is such a joke.
J Law is only 2 years older than Waterhouse though.
I am indifferent to BCoop but his relationship with a woman almost half his age is pretty gross to me.
I would actually prefer Bradley with JLaw. Because they seem like they genuinely enjoy each other’s company, like they have a ton of fun together, and are great friends. With Suki–maybe because I’ve never read an interview with her–it doesn’t seem like they’re together. There’s no chemistry, no passion that we see. So it just comes off as some middle aged dude dating some young girl because she can look good braless. With JLaw, a romantic relationship, combined with their natural friendship would transcend an age difference. I mean, when Brad and Angelina hooked up–who was saying ‘she’s thirty! he’s 42! CREEP!’??? Not many people, because they both were on the same level, and it didn’t seem like he was taking advantage of her.
@OKitt
I do think it’s weird. I used to be sort of skewed to ‘people fall in love at all ages’, ‘age doesn’t matter’, etc–I think because my mom and my dad (stepdad technically) have a big age gap–13 years–and it’s never been about how gorgeous my mom is (although she is), but the fact that my mom had three kids, was tired of trifling dudes, and then here comes this 20 year old who is just…different.
But GOD–these dudes just want a piece of ass. That’s it. Ugh. Me and my mom were talking about dating, and she told me that she felt really bad for me, because of how guys are now. To find one, my age, without a kid? That’s hard.
“With Suki–maybe because I’ve never read an interview with her–it doesn’t seem like they’re together. There’s no chemistry, no passion that we see. So it just comes off as some middle aged dude dating some young girl because she can look good braless.”
This exactly.
Yeah I mean..I’m pretty open-minded about the age thing too but I don’t pretend to understand it.
I don’t want to sound like a hypocrite because I typically date guys that are younger than me, but I’m really speaking from experience here. The 25-year-old that I’ve been playing around with? Well there’s just SO much of a maturity gap that I find myself feeling more like a big sister and it’s just not sexy at all. He always sends me selfies (like I need to see his big-ass face with a couple mountains in the background) and asks me for selfies. Like, nah dude I’m wearing an XL “I heart Miami” t-shirt right now and I have barbecue sauce all over my face, I’m not sending you a f*cking selfie. So there’s also an awkward generational gap there– I’m 35–I’m not of the Selfie Generation. He finds selfies fun and playful while I find them embarrassing and vain.
The easiest way explain the inherent differences in a 17- year age gap is like this: think about EVERYTHING that’s happened to you in the past 17 years. THAT is how much life experience, maturity, and growth one can endure over the course of 17 years. Granted, more maturing happens between age 1 and age 18 than say, age 40 and age 58, but still….
So I’ve found out that 28 is about as young as I can go while still feeling some level of connection with someone (and even then, there are still struggles) but I cannot for the life of me imagine what I could possibly have in common with an 18 year old boy.
I guess that’s why it sketches me out. It doesn’t enrage me or anything but it makes me give Coop the side-eye.
Gah! Another long comment. Sorry…
@Virgiila
Not all men are out looking for women half their age. There are actually guys out there who want women their age who are on their level and are smart and successful as well.
Most men who end up in relationships with women who are significantly younger than them are just looking for an ego boost or they are trying to perpetuate a certain image… and most of those relationships are full of drama and unhappiness. If that’s what these guys are looking for, then more power to them. But they are seriously not happy.
I do believe that there are a few May-December romances that are legit, but I think that they are few and far in between.
As an single woman who is pushing past the age of 35, I just focus on being myself and enjoying my life… and I try not to focus too much on being single. It’s not the end of the world. And usually when you focus on those things, that’s when Mr. Right comes around the corner (I believe it’ll happen for me one day). Regardless of how old or young you are.
@GeeMoney
The men that I was referring to in my comment are the ones that date 20 year old after 20 year…I didn’t meant all men.
And I don’t get it–but some dudes like drama in women their own age. I have an uncle who has a five year rule–he won’t date anyone more than five years younger than he is…because he said that he doesn’t want to deal with a young woman’s drama. But he got married five years ago–to a woman who is five years younger than he is–and she is FULL of drama. There’s always something going on. I don’t get it.
But I wish you luck in your search–I think I’m in the same boat. I’d rather be alone, than with someone who doesn’t love me for me. Spinster sisters!!! (haha)
Nope.
Suki is “Britain’s wild child”? OK…
I doubt this. I think they’re friends and enjoy working together, and that’s it.
I know…I laughed at that too. When did Kate Moss die and pass on the baton to Waterhouse? She is hardly old enough to have earned that moniker…..
Pretty sure “Britain’s Wildchild” is Cara Delevigne, not Sippy Cuphouse.
I like both of them but I doubt there is anything more than friendship between them.
This would make sense if Suki was in a real relationship with him.
For real! I can’t believe that there are people out there who think that they are a real couple. You know what an almost 40 year old actor wants with a 22 year old model?
Press. And more movie roles.
Oh, and I forgot. To be his beard. B/c everyone knows, if you like young girls, you couldn’t POSSIBLY be gay…
Well she’s been single for 10 minutes…time for the stories to start. Cooper though? C’mon Star you can do better! There’s Josh Hutchenson, Liam Hemsworth, hell if you want a real headline there’s Fassbender!
Right? I’m thinking they are saving Liam Hemsworth for when the Mockingjay press tour begins haha
I always thought they would make a cute couple. I love Jennifer Lawerence. I don’t think these young dudes out here can handle her. Go Bradley!
I can’t wait for the staged pap photos of Brad and Jen (OH NOEZZ!!! Another Bennifer!!!) lying in the park whilst Bradley lovingly reads excerpts of The Big Book of Toilet Jokes (7th Edition) to Jennifer as she looks lovingly into his nose hairs.
I think Bradley is a fantastic actor. I preferred him in SLP.
This story is obviously fake. There’s no real drama with the Hoult/Lawrence break up to write about.
Is that Serena movie they did together ever going to come out?
Oh, it’s JLaw’s birthday today!
Serena has been screen-tested last year and apparently it’s awful
Happy Birthday Jennifer Lawrence!.
I remember Jennifer saying while she was filming catching fire (i think?) that one of the tabs called her up and said that she had to choose a coworker to be “set up” with in a story or they would choose for her. She told them to go with BCoop since they were close buddies rather than the guy who played Finnick because that dude had a fiance and she didnt want to upset them. long story short – i think this is bullshit and they are clearly not hooking up.
Yeah, I remember that. She said that her publicist told her they were going to run a story, and she got to choose who she was going to be set up with – Sam Claflin or Bradley Cooper. She said: “I chose Bradley, because I like Sam’s fiancee so much”.
And as for jealous girlfriends, while I would believe that Miley was jealous of Jen when she was still dating Liam Hemsworth, but Suki just doesn’t seem to care.
Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I actually liked Bradley Cooper’s acting in SLP over Jennifer’s. I think she’s just overrated.
Cooper is really great and believable as bipolar ( when he did his crisis in his parents’home,he nailed the scene really) in SLP contrary to JLaw. She has one good scene .With him in the restaurant when she talks about sex with him.
I never understood the hype about this movie and Lawrence in it
I loved the film. I think they both acted fine and Robert DeNiro was really great, very touching.
I don’t understand the hype with her either. I think she’s a really good actress, but I definitely liked his performance in SLP better. I also think he would have won the Oscar if he wasn’t going up against Daniel Day-Lewis.
I agree, but I’m from Louisville so I’m just supposed to drink her tea and like it. I honestly thought she did a really good job in Winter’s Bone, but other than that I just do not get the hype. I’ve tried and tried to get through SLP and her acting makes me stop every single time. By the end of American Hustle I was ready to call every friend that vouched for her and tell them to f*$K right off.
Am I the only one waiting for the J-Law – David O. Russel pairing? A bit like Quentin and Uma, you know? Director and muse and so on…
I agree with others, Bradley was amazing in SLP and made the movie great. Jennifer played another version of the same character she has been playing virtually all of her career which is essentially a slightly different version of herself. Why is it on this site whenever there is a story about Jennifer and someone else you have to constantly throw shade at them? You did this with Nick because the breakup was blamed on both of their schedules, you basically downed him and his career while propping hers up. Is Jen a good actress? Sure, but she is not the second coming. She’s not always the coolest or the most famous or the best actor in the room and everything she says isn’t the best thing ever. Sometimes she’s annoying and says stupid and at times flat out offensive shit and an acting lesson wouldn’t kill her nor would learning to think before she speaks. It doesn’t make you any less of a fan to admit those things. I like her but the blind adoration is getting ridiculous.
Okay, I agree to a certain point, but what’s wrong with saying something nice about someone you like rather than trying to tear them down? I respectfully disagree about her perfomance in SLP. I thought she was the stronger of the two, but I still liked Bradley. I also disagree that she plays the same character in every movie, but that’s okay. We all have different opinions and that’s great.
@lia: Plus one million.
I don’t believe the story for a second but BCoop has really grown on me over the last couple of years so I wouldn’t totally hate this pairing. And I think that they are both talented actors. I really liked Bradley in American Hustle. She was the comedic relief and she nailed it. I don’t think it was worthy of an Oscar nomination but since it was an Oscar-baity film I’m not surprised she was nominated. And as for SLP I just thought that movie was acted perfectly by all parties.
I love them both on the screen, individually and together, and wish they would make more rom coms if we are calling Silver Linings Playbook a rom com (I would call it a “dramedy”). I get why people wish for real-life pairings between screen couples with chemistry, and yes sometimes it happens (Bogie & Bacall [RIP] and Brangelina). But I think more often than not it’s just fantasy to think that two people who can make something magical happen on screen are falling in love in real life. Acting is skill, screen chemistry is a happy accident, but staring into someone’s eyes in a way that the camera loves doesn’t mean you’re *falling* in love.
BC and JL have often told stories about each other on talk shows etc. and they’re all super friendzone stories. When Cooper was on Howard Stern and Stern said they had mad chemistry, Cooper clearly stated, if she were sitting here right now, you wouldn’t think we were fu**ing. In other words, the energy that two performers can build between them for the camera is NOT the same as the romantic bond that a couple builds in real life.
I remember that Howard Stern interview and I thought he said you WOULD think we were sleeping together.
I think it was fuzzy on the audio but my reading of the exchange is that Stern was trying to rile Cooper into saying that he was getting it on with JLaw, and Cooper’s response was that Stern *wouldn’t* think that was happening if JLaw was right there. But I could definitely be wrong!! Just my interpretation.
I liked both Jlaw’s and BC’s performances in the movie. I really liked the film overall, too.
What did I love? THAT COAT! I loved her black trench in the movie. I forgot about it, until now.
This made me flex my “bitch,please!” muscle so hard I now have to take an advil. God, how stupid is this? He’s already got a live-in beard to be his mom’s companion. If they are texting each other, it’s probably about who has the best crazy eyes or more likely, just blowing the breeze.
Totally of subject, but I loved JLaw’s hair (including cool) and make up on ‘SLP’.
Faux – Another dream from the fevered mind of a dengue-fever suffering Tab-Writer.
Isn’t she seeing Chris Martin? Gwenyth’s ex.
I just read on another site that she’s supposed to be hooking up with Chris Martin.
*cackles*
*more cackles*
Suddenly Goop’s preemptive announcement of her own (home-wrecking) affair two days ago makes perfect sense…
Just watched E’News and they claim to have multiple sources that say she; Jennifer is in fact with Chris and have been since early July.
RANDOM..
As usual, Star is way off because E! and other sites are saying that JLaw and Chris Martin have “consciously coupled!” What an odd pairing.
The Daily Mail and E are saying there’s something going on between JLaw and Chris Martin. What a weird couple.
Just read the internet has given them a couple name already –
Martin Lawrence.
Lol!
Love American Hustle!! Both so talented!
This Jen and Chris news gotta win the most random unexpected news of the year. Someone heard something but they don’t have any proof but the fact she was in his concert early july and maybe they met in NY last week and this obviously don’t count as a relationship. We have to remember E isn’t always right but this is too random to not be true. Every major site is reporting and neither team bother to denied and put an end to this so something must be up and they were caught off guard over this leak.