Bradley Cooper and his ex-fiancé – Russian bombshell Irina Shayk – put on a united front wearing matching Rocket Raccoon costumes while trick-or-treating in Manhattan on Halloween with their daughter Lea De Seine.
The 48-year-old actor-director and the 37-year-old Society Management Model share 50/50 joint legal and physical custody of the six-year-old child, and they’ve remained amicable since ending their four-year romance in 2019.
Little Lea is clearly a Swiftie as she decided to dress like Taylor Swift in a black fedora, matching loafers, red lipstick, and a white T-shirt emblazoned with a lyric – ‘Who’s Taylor Swift anyway? Ew’ – from her 2012 song 22.
Bradley and Irina made sure to hold their darling girl’s hands as they collected candy to put inside her fuzzy jack-o-lantern while in a neighborhood not far from his $13M West Village townhouse.
Cooper famously voiced the hot-tempered, genetically-enhanced raccoon in the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, Holiday Special, I Am Groot, two Avengers films, and Thor: Love and Thunder.
The bounty hunter, mercenary, and master of weapons/battle tactics – who has a bizarre fixation with artificial limbs – was created in 1976 by Bill Mantlo and Keith Giffen after they were inspired by the Beatles’ 1968 song Rocky Raccoon.
And like the nine-time Oscar nominee, Rocket aka ’89P13′ was also a doting father to adoptive son Groot, who’s a sentient tree-like humanoid voiced by Vin Diesel.
The Philadelphia native blatantly broke SAG/AFTRA strike rules urging all members to not dress up as any licensed TV/movie characters this Halloween, especially Disney projects from 2023.
One giant tell that it was definitely Bradley was the fact that he was wearing the same exact grey Nike Air Jordan ‘Retro 1 Mid SE Craft’ sneakers he was sporting earlier on Tuesday.
And while Shayk (born Shaykhlislamova) was fine covering up her supermodel face and phenomenal 5ft10in figure on the Big Apple streets, she took to Instastory to reveal everything else for her captive 23.2M following.
Last Wednesday, Cooper unveiled the second trailer for his fully-authorized biopic Maestro on the legendary composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, which hits limited US theaters November 22 before streaming December 20 on Netflix.
The two-time Grammy winner co-wrote, produced, directed, and stars in the 129-minute movie about the Massachusetts-born musician’s 25-year marriage to actress Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan) and affair with music scholar Tommy Cothran (Gideon Glick).
Two-time Oscar-winning make-up artist Kazu Hiro applied Bradley’s prosthetic nose and wrinkles so he could more authentically portray the closeted homosexual (who died, age 72, in 1990) through three decades.
Maestro – which already scored 85% on Rotten Tomatoes – also features Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, Sam Nivola, Sarah Silverman, Gideon Glick, Gabe Fazio, Eric Parkinson, William Hill, Nick Blaemire, Oscar Pavlo, Tim Rogan, and Mallory Portnoy.
Bernstein was best known for his work with the New York Philharmonic and the Broadway musical West Side Story and he won seven Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, 16 Grammy Awards, and the Kennedy Center Honor.
Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg produced Maestro and, in November, Spielberg cast Cooper as the titular San Francisco cop in his untitled Frank Bullitt film, which will be produced by Steve McQueen’s son Chad McQueen and granddaughter Molly McQueen.
