Celebrity Poker Hunk: Bradley Cooper

In anticipation of the release of the new comedy movie “The Hangover,” Warner Bros. Pictures hosted a celebrity charity poker tournament at The Poker Room of Caesars Palace last Friday, the stars of the latest Vegas-based comedy, “The Hangover,” will return to the scene of their soon-to-be-released film on Friday for a star-studed cahrity poker tournament.

Another glazed to my eye is the hunk and impressive poker face guy, Bradley Cooper. In the interview of collider.com, Bardley Cooper explains his experiences in the comedy movie of all time:

Collider's Question: Is this considered a dark comedy?

Bradley Cooper: Yes. There is a lot of darkness in this thing. But we’ve had a blast. No one realizes that we work all the time. I mean, we haven’t had any real time off at all. We’ve been doing a couple of six-day weeks. The great thing about it is that I’ve seen quite a few areas of Vegas that I never would have gotten to see. We shot at the Riviera, and downtown. We shot in the old part of Vegas, which you don’t really see anymore. You are going to see Vegas in the daytime. As far as I know, you don’t really see Vegas in the movies during the daytime. Most of these movie takes place during the day. This takes place during the day after the night.

Collider's Question: Can you tell us how you got involved? And what appealed to you about the script?

Bradley Cooper: Sure. I got involved early on. I think it was back in November. Todd had the script, and it was sort of banging around. I liked Todd. I certainly was a fan of his. I thought the opportunity to play this guy was something I liked. He is an alpha male. It wasn’t that I necessarily liked the character. I liked the synergy between the three guys. I liked that each one was so specific. And together, if you cast it properly, I thought it could have a lot of energy. I also liked the script itself. I liked the way it moved. It is fast. It is no joke. It’s like getting on a jet plane that just takes off and goes, and it doesn’t slow down until it lands. It’s rare that you get a comedy that has that type of engine. Each scene propels you to the next one. It’s more like Starsky and Hutch than Old School. Even though it’s a comedy, there is a mystery to it. It’s not like Old School, where it was just about the comedy. Here, we have an engine. We have to get this guy back to the wedding. Or else we fail. That engine really drives it. It is so fast.

Collider's Question: What have you been up to in Vegas?

Bradley Cooper: Just work. We’ve been working this entire time.

Collider's Question:The other guys say they’ve been gambling.

Bradley Cooper: Oh, there has been a little bit of gambling. But like I said, I could get in trouble in this town. I try to stay away from those sorts of things.

Collider's Question:How did you do in the big poker game?

Bradley Cooper: I did better than I thought I would. I survived through the third table. I am not really a poker player.

About Bradley Cooper: Bradley Cooper is an accomplished actor on stage, in movies and also on television. Bradley Cooper is one of Hollywood's busiest actors. Bradley Cooper was most recently seen in the comedy "Yes Man," in which he co-starred with Jim Carrey under the direction of Peyton Reed, and in the ensemble romantic comedy "He's Just Not That Into You."

Following "The Hangover," Bradley Cooper stars in several very different films due out in 2009: "All About Steve," a quirky tale in which Cooper plays the title role as the object of Sandra Bullock's attention; the horror thriller "Case 39," opposite Renée Zellweger; and the biopic "The Prince of Providence," in which he stars with Robin Williams and Oliver Platt.

Bradley Cooper also appears in the anthology film "New York, I Love You," in a segment directed by Allen Hughes. The American version of "Paris, je t'aime," the film debuted at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival and is set for a 2009 release. Bradley Cooper is rumored to be the nest green lantern.

Born in Philadelphia, Bradley Cooper graduated with honors from the English program at Georgetown University before moving to New York City to obtain his Masters in the Fine Arts program at the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School University.

Source: Collide .com

Celebrity Poker Player: Heather Graham

Poker is hot and poker players are now huge celebrities. And even Hollywood could not resist the influence as more and more stars are going to the poker tables.



The beautiful actress Heather Graham has fallen in love with the card game poker, because she spent a lot of time in Las Vegas where she recorded the film “Hangover”.
The star of the film “Boogie Nights” has thus become another one in a series of famous people to fall to the charms of poker.

The actress has admitted that this initially innocent game has awoken the dark side of her.

“Poker is pretty vicious and dark. It brings out an ugly side of me that's pretty competitive” said Heather, who participated in a poker competition and finished fourth.

The star of the film “American Pie” Shannon Elizabeth, the actors Ben Affleck, Jason Alexander, who is better known as George Costanza from “Seinfeld”, Tobey Maguire and Edward Norton are only some of the Hollywood celebrities that enjoy playing poker.

Hollywood actress Heather Graham has admitted she dreams of playing poker against Brad Pitt, and other Hollywood A-listers, but fears she would finish up losing thousands of dollars in the process.




“I hardly ever lose money. I don’t play for huge stakes - I’m too cautious for that. But I’ve often won hundreds of dollars. I always play sober. My weakness is a tendency to get too competitive, which means I lose my edge.

“I’m waiting to be invited to the tournaments that Brad Pitt organises. But I’d need to be careful. Those guys play for huge stakes. I’d be afraid of running a losing streak and ending up writing out huge IOUs.”



Heather Graham recently joined the ranks of other high-profile celebrities that have taken up the game, including Jennifer Tilly, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, George Clooney, and Brad Pitt himself.

About Heather Graham: Graham became interested in acting at a young age. She had her first role, as Dorothy, in a school production of The Wizard of Oz and remained active in the theater throughout high school, winning the title of Most Talented from her peers. After high school, Graham packed up and headed to Los Angeles, where she discovered that talented as she may have been, it was no guarantee of employment.



Heather stayed in the public eye for the next few years, playing notable bit parts including the role of the dream girl in Swingers, but her breakout role struck in 1997 when she was cast as "Rollergirl" in Boogie Nights. Two appearances in 1999 Felicity Shagwell in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Daisy in Bowfinger cemented her into the spotlight where she has remained ever since.

Scrubbs star, Graham, said; “I’m a demon poker player. For years I’ve had friends over to my house for poker sessions. Or I’ll go to poker clubs.