W magazine unleashed several covers for its annual February Movie issue. I’m pretty sure Bradley Cooper got the short end of the artsy stick. Here’s your hopeful threepeat Oscar nominee at your service: High-waisted white trousers, matching suspenders, and a freshly waxed chest. The effect is mystifying. I’m pretty sure this is what Charlie Chaplin would look like as a serial killer, minus the ‘stache. BCoop has somehow doubled down on his silly magazine cover theme for the season.
What’s even more puzzling than this Bradley cover? The suspender shot is the “before” picture. Oh yes, there is a semi-NSFW “after” shot too. Bradley’s promoting a very serious movie, and he took it off to do so. It’s all very confusing and happened so quickly, I’m afraid. Poor BCoop never knew what pancake makeup hit him.
Faring slightly better in this shoot was Michael Keaton, dressed as a human sunflower. Kind of cool? Not really. The head-topping flower was clearly overkill. I hope he “snapped” at this costume. Bitchy Keaton is the best Keaton.
Shailene Woodley was styled like a funhouse mirror reflection. Those artificial eyebrows are supposed to be surreal.
I’m including more photos of BCoop taking the subway after his Broadway show. Regular dude, for your consideration.
Photos courtesy of Tim Walker/W magazine & WENN
His nipples are mesmerizing.
And “American Sniper” is probably the first movie trailer of his that I watched and thought, “Wow, B-Coop can ACT!” ….I generally dislike him in all of his movies, and he’s not that hot for me to watch either (my mom thinks he’s pretty)….
I never got the creepy vibe from him, but this picture is super creepy! Also Keaton looks like an idiot with all the flowers. Is that supposed to be artsy??
Artistically above my head, apparently.
Yeah, I’m just not up to the task, either. U.g.l.y.
I think they all escaped from a Calvin Klein Obsession commercial because they’re recreating all my creepy, perfume ad inspired nightmares (the stage where I’m half awake and trying to physically force myself out of dream land).
Lol, I hate when that happens.
Creepy thin man…
I always felt he had/has this sleepy, creepy vibe and to this day I cant explain why…
I didn’t always see it, but I do these days.
Everything I see here is creepy.
Nothing else to add.
I agree, creepy and just WTF?
actually, the fact that these photos are sort of creepy are what make them interesting to me. i don’t find b. coop very attractive, but at least he looks different here and so in my book, this cover shot is a win.
Awe, he has Fassy nipples, they’re tiny.
He’s creepy to look at in general, serial killer eyes.
I always rather got sweaty and coke-y, rather than creepy, but probably because he looks and reminds me of 2 raging coke heads whom I know.
In our family we call being a sweaty mess having a ‘coop on’ as he always looks like that!
YES He looks always in the Midst of a Coke Bender …. always creepy , clammy jaw Grindy… and/or The Last Face you gonna see before you die
I agree about the serial killer eyes. B Coop has always give me a seriously, sick vibe ala Ted Bundy.
That is one strange cover, as is this whole photo series. I must just not be getting their art, though I’m sure it’s some kind of “homage” and someone somewhere has already done this.
Tommy Lee Jones looks pissed while sanctioning his own buffoonery. I love most of the shots, though. Bradley Cooper’s photos are about the only ones where I have trouble deciding how I feel about them, so maybe that is a success?
They softened him up quite a bit, and he’s like a Zombie Joel Grey mime without the make-up in Cabaret, or something like that? He’s nuanced ‘weird’ rather than the other fantastical imagery the other actors took on through styling and costuming. Reese looks fabulous.
To which sort of “p*ssed” do you refer?
I thought of Clockwork Orange, but effete. Even epicene!
Huh! I tried to watch Clockwork Orange once, but didn’t make it through. It was a late night drunk endeavor at a friend’s house. Is it worth it?
*Not the Brit “pissed”, but the American, “Pissed-off” which is a standard issue expression for him. I think it’s one of those situations where your mom tells you not to make a certain face because it will freeze like that. TLJ has resting pissed face.
Just the famous picture of Malcolm McDowell dressed in white, I think.
Book’s bettererererer.
I think he has resting snide face!
I thought of Clockwork Orange crossed with the MC from Cabaret. Lol
I loved Clockwork Orange–and yeah the whole shoot is reminiscent of the 1970s film era.
Reese even has a bit of a Mia Farrow vibe going on.
Tommy Lee Jones’s was the best. You just know he said he wasn’t going to do any damn picture with mismatched socks. Holding those flowers was more than enough for him.
Yeah, it’s so incongruous. The cheerful flowers juxtaposed to his sour puss.
I want to see a list of all the sh*t TLJ said no to before they just handed him flowers.
There was probably a two second time delay before handing the flowers and hitting the shutter. You might want the shit said after that.
+1
This picture is giving me A Clockwork Orange vibe and only adds to BCoop general creepiness.
The photo series is interesting I guess, but while these actors are great on screen I don’t feel the need to buy this magazine to see any of them in it.
this is going to be a problem this awards season; especially for the Award Shows.
are Bradley’s nipples that far apart or is his shoulders pulled back making it look that way.
THE only picture that didn’t scare the crap out of me was the sunflowers pic and that because it’s nothing compared To the Beetle juice image that I have of Micheal Keaton. Everything else just looks a bit too creepy for my taste. Too much raperface and coke stare Going on!
Coop looks very Freddie Mercury in those duds. Could do with a bit of chest hair though.
You are so right! If he had a mustashe it would look like he was promoting a movie version of Freddie Mercury’s life story
Ooh! Yes! But Freddy had a sweetness, tend to agree w/everyone else Bradley’s channeling something creepier here.
Bradley Cooper has always given me weird vibes, but this shot vaults him right into nightmare territory.
same here.
@Kaye: Ha!…yes, a thousand times yes. Cooper’s photos give off a very creepy, sinister, nightmarish vibe. Woodley’s photos are just as creepy…yikes. Jones, Keaton maybe Witherspoon are good.
Creepy. I’m getting a strong A Clockwork Orange vibe…
Hmm, not working for me. Nipples are good, but mainly on woman. Not the look that makes my toes tap. So my vote is: c r e e p y..
WTF???
It looks to me as if he’s murdered someone and then is using their skin as a body suit if that makes sense.
Yes. Very, very Silence of the Lambs.
Totally creepy. He’s never been hot to me but this is just icky.
I don’t like any of the photos in the series. Most of them just look odd, the people look slightly embarrassed, Tommy Lee Jones looks like he’s about to kill someone, and Cooper looks really, really creepy.
Tommy Lee Jones always looks like he is about to kill someone. That’s his resting happy face.
LOL
Grooooosssssssss. He looks like Emperor Palpatine.
He already lost the 40 pounds he gained for American Sniper, I guess. My friends saw the movie and said he was amazing in it.
He looks asexual in that photo. Something about it that turns me off. I guess it is avant garde. LOL
Michael Keaton should have thrown the photographer out of the room with an idea like that and just taken a selfie, and it would have been better. LOL
This look and styling totally suits him. He definitely works it.
I actually think it works, too, much better than the VF pool table cover and any other “hot dude” styling that we usually get. To me he’s just not hot, but also not as creepy as other people seem to find him.
The waxed chest, very white skin and close shave on the face is a really gross combo.
I don’t get the waxed chest thing. If I want to see a boy, I will look at a boy. I don’t want to see a hairless man. It’s creepy. Why do we try to infantize people by removing all their hair? (Men and women alike).
They have one picture of BCoop with his leg sticking ala Angelina Jolie…if I wasn’t an old lady, who dosen’t know how to link to pics, I would. It looks really, really odd….yes, BCoop has a leg of doom, who knew…
What in the ever loving f*** did they do to Michael Keaton?
The only pics that look good are Ralph Fiennes and Ethan Hawke! The rest are definitely pretentious arty.
Creeps me out, looks like dead man walking!
I am menaced by his nipples instead of his irises for once. And I still feel like he has a well, a bucket and a white poodle in his house somewhere
These looks like head shots for Clown College.
That might be harsh, all these guys could get into Clown University, I’ll bet.
I was all ready to come here and type creepy, but the more I look at it, the more INTENTIONALLY creepy it seems. They obviously wanted to push us out of our comfort zones, so well-played. Like.
Ewwwwww
Looks like Bradley Cooper borrowed the Jolie Leg for the NSFW image…
Bcoop is giving me a clockwork orange vibes from this.
Never thought much of him as an actor but he’s beginning to win me over.
Question:
Why is Fassbender not in any of those pics?
I just watched him giggle his way through an interview with Jimmy Fallen whom I normally love…but the two of them were giggling like grade school girls..over NOTHING except each other’s reaction to the other giggling. IT was creepy too….The bare chested photo. Ummm. NO.
He appears better looking on screen than he did today on live TV.
Bra dley Cooper gave the BEST interview on Howard Stern today!! He was funny as hell. Charming and playful. I think I fell in love with him a little !
Just no.
creepy as f*** but to me he’s always that
Wait…that’s Bradley Cooper?? Maybe it’s the heavy make-up, or super paleness, or massive photoshopping thats making him unrecognizable. Actually, I’m going to go with all the above. Wow.
BC looks ridiculous and creepy. The whole series is disturbing, like in a circus from hell kind of way.
Also, Keaton looks like Johnny Lydon from his PIL days.
I really like some of the pics, some are just plain weird hot (Ralph Fiennes, those eyes! Cumberbatch in the yellow sweater w/matching sexy apple, Emma’s 70’s doll is kind of eery). Some are more of a mixed bag, like the Bradley and Eddie shots, they’re trying to skeeve us out, but how, precisely? I don’t think they’re all a success, but it is a fun pictorial to look at. Also where is Jake Gyllenhaal? Am I missing something or wasn’t his Nightcrawler performance considered a contender? Or Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl, that was a revelation in terms of her career and showing what she can do, how do the Fanning Sisters trump her? This whole shoot just made me realize I have a ton of movies to watch.