Bradley Cooper plays an angry, exasperated chef in his new film Burnt – no wonder he used Gordon Ramsay as inspiration for the character.
To research his new role as chef Adam Jones, the chef spent time with the ‘F Word’ star, as well as Marcus Wareing and British restaurateur Marco Pierre White.
Cooper said: “I created a guy I see as a mixture of the three guys I studied: Marcus Wareing, Gordon Ramsey, and Marco Pierre White.
He’s a combination. Little things he does, physical things, are basically things I stole from all three of those guys … It wasn’t conscious, but going back and watching the movie I see, ‘Oh yeah: That’s him … that’s him … [and] that’s him.
“For ‘Burnt’, I had access to Marco, Marcus, Gordon Ramsay and Clare Smyth. These are all Michelin-star chefs. It’s a whole other world.”
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Cooper also found his work as a restaurant busboy as a teenager very helpful.
He told Yahoo Movies: “It was an Italian family, so cooking was a huge part of it. I was a busboy at a Greek restaurant and a prep cook at an Italian restaurant in New Jersey.”
His background in the kitchen came in good use as he was only given a month to get to grips with his role.
“I didn’t have as much time to prep, but I was able to spend a month living and breathing it,” he said.
