Name: Bradley Cooper got real serious with Colbert's piercing questions about music, smells, and pets
Uploaded: 2022-01-15T16:10:20+00:00
Description: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" host Stephen Colbert challenged "Nightmare Alley" star Bradley Cooper to his "Questionert" gauntlet of piercing personal questions.

Bradley Cooper got real serious with Colbert's piercing questions about music, smells, and pets

The 'Nightmare Alley' star fielded a battery of personal questions for the late night host's "Questionert".

Bradley Cooper is the latest Late Show guest to take on Stephen Colbert's signature Q&A gauntlet, the "Questionert".

For the right participant, the late night host's rapid-fire battery of innocent yet piercingly personal questions paints a fuller picture of the answerer than a million bog-standard "So how did you get your start in acting?" press tour questions could ever uncover. Cooper is one such "right participant"; squeezing his eyes shut, the Nightmare Alley star carefully listens to every question and then fires off the first answer that pops into his head.

We learn, for example, that Cooper fears Komodo dragons, loves the classical composer Mahler (even as he admits he's currently working on a Leonard Bernstein biopic), and — correctly, in this author's humble opinion — prefers dogs to cats. He's also got a very specific opinion on his favorite sandwich.

Topics Stephen Colbert

Adam Rosenberg

Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.