Vince Vaughn is returning the favor after learning Wedding Crashers costar Bradley Cooper complimented his fearlessness on set. “I think as an actor, you commit, and you kind of go down the slope and don’t look back,” Vaughn, 54, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, August 12, at the Bad Monkey premiere in Los Angeles, noting that his approach to acting has always been going all in. Vaughn’s remark came after Cooper, 49, pointed to his role in Wedding Crashers as his own career-changing moment mainly because of how unserious Vaughn was on each take.
“Up until that point, I was always just trying to get it right on camera. Be present and get it right,” Cooper explained during a January interview for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations program. “I’m watching Vince Vaughn destroy a scene, just crush it, and then he wants another take.
It was the scene where the grandmother is shooting him, takes the gun out and he’s running out. He’s just like, ‘I want to do another one.” In front of everyone .
.. this huge crew and lights and it’s so nerve-wracking .
.. and it was his willingness to fail.
” Cooper, who played Sack Lodge in the 2005 rom-com, recalled watching Vaughn and being “just in awe of this human, this man just failing, just willing to try anything.” (Vaughn played the co-lead in the movie, Jeremy Grey, alongside Owen Wilson ’s John Beckwith.) Upon hearing what Cooper had to say about his performance, Vaughn told Us that he thinks “tha.