Bradley Cooper has opened up on his time when he hit the large time with a visitor position early in his profession, showing as Carrie Bradshaw’s temporary love curiosity in an episode of Intercourse and the Metropolis.

Cooper, whose biographical drama Maestro has been awarded seven Oscar nominations forward of this 12 months’s Academy Awards, was talking on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Competition, when he seemed again to his temporary time on the hit present, again in 1999. He remembered his fears moving into, as he had lied about with the ability to drive a sports activities automotive throughout his audition.

He stated: “I bear in mind after I bought the decision to do it I used to be terrified. ‘What do you imply I’m really going to need to do it?’ I couldn’t drive a stick shift, in order that they despatched me to Fashions Driving College and I used to be simply terrified.

“I nonetheless messed it up, so they’d any individual else drive the automotive and I simply needed to… faux that we stopped.”

The actor appeared on display screen as Jake within the episode They Shoot Single Individuals, Don’t They?, which aired throughout the hit HBO present’s second season in 1999.

Different well-known alumni from the comedy embody Elizabeth Banks, Justin Theroux, Vince Vaughn and Matthew McConaughey.

Cooper was being offered on the Movie Competition with the award for Excellent Performer of the 12 months Award, for his work on Maestro. He goes into this 12 months’s Oscars with nods for Greatest Image and Greatest Image, however not for Greatest Director.