Bradley Cooper’s eyebrow-raising revelation about his directorial course of is being met with a cold response. 

The Oscar-nominated actor and filmmaker just lately spoke to Spike Lee as a part of Variety’s “Directors on Directors” video series and, within the interview, shared that he’s nixed chairs from the units of films he directs. 

“There’s no chairs on sets,” Cooper mentioned. “I’ve always hated chairs, and I feel like your energy dips the minute you sit down in the chair. So [an] apple box is a very nice way to sit and everybody’s together.”

He additionally instructed Lee that there’s “no video village,” referring to the behind-the-scenes space of a film set, crammed with displays and screens, that’s usually reserved for the director. 

“I hate that,” he mentioned.

Though Cooper isn’t the primary director to express his distaste for chairs on units, some felt his remarks reeked of each privilege and, even worse, ableism. 

“Anyway, I think every single person on set should get a provided chair, not just cast/video village, because working 12 hour+ days without being allowed to sit down is inhumane,” one individual wrote on X, the social media platform previously generally known as Twitter. 

Added another: “As a wheelchair-bound actor, I feel like Bradley Cooper wouldn’t let me on set…”

Cooper is driving a wave of award season buzz for “Maestro,” which hits Netflix subsequent week. The movie, his directorial follow-up to the 2018 romantic drama “A Star Is Born,” is a biopic of composer Leonard Bernstein (performed by Cooper), whose well-known works embrace “West Side Story” and “Candide.” 

Among those that allegedly share Cooper’s aversion to chairs is director Christopher Nolan. In 2020, Anne Hathaway ― who starred in Nolan’s movies “The Dark Knight Rises” and “Interstellar” ― told Variety that the director “doesn’t allow chairs.”

“His reasoning is, if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they’re sitting, they’re not working,” Hathaway mentioned on the time. She went on to notice that she wasn’t utterly against Nolan’s strategy: “I think he’s onto something with the chair thing.”

A consultant of Nolan later told IndieWire that Hathaway’s remarks had been misconstrued, clarifying that the director had solely ever banned “cell phones (not always successfully) and smoking (very successfully)” from his units. 

Earlier this month, nevertheless, Robert Downey Jr. lent credence to Hathaway’s preliminary declare, telling Variety that there “were no set chairs” whereas working with Nolan on “Oppenheimer.”