NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Bradley Cooper has been juggling a grueling eight-show-a-week performance schedule in the hit Broadway play The Elephant Man with promotional duties for his new Navy Seal movie American Sniper.
"Both Chris Kyle and Joseph Merrick were real people, who I admire greatly, and, so, I just felt a tremendous responsibility to both of them. And, I just see it as a huge opportunity and a privilege. So, I just did everything I could to do right by them," Cooper said at a press conference in New York Tuesday. "Movies, for me, have always been healing. When I was a kid growing up, The Elephant Man was a movie that affected me in such a massive way it made me want to be an actor. It always made me feel like I wasn't so alone. That's why I do what I do. I love storytelling so much."