After Oscar nominations for three years running, Bradley Cooper is hoping to impress the Academy again with a lead role in Burnt.
Originally titled Chef, before Jon Favreau stole his thunder, and then the rather bland Adam Jones, Cooper’s latest film sees him star as a chef at the top of his game who then loses it all. In an attempt to regain his reputation, he works his way back to the top with a new restaurant in London.
The first trailer hints at a major focus on food porn (every other shot looks like an Instagram post) and a starry supporting cast, including Cooper’s American Sniper wife Sienna Miller, Jamie Dornan, Uma Thurman, Emma Thompson, Alicia Vikander, Omar Sy and Daniel Brühl. Cooper’s played a chef before, in the failed 2005 series Kitchen Confidential, but he’s hoping this one doesn’t get sent back with complaints.
His preparation for the film has veered from reportedly getting lessons from Gordon Ramsay to flipping burgers in Burger King.
It’s directed by John Wells, whose last film was Oscar bait drama August: Osage County and scripted by Steven Knight, who was most recently behind the Tom Hardy thriller Locke.
- Burnt opens in the UK on 16 October and in the US on 23 October.
