Bradley Cooper can hold off on researching about performance-enhancing drugs—for now.

The Silver Linings Playbook star insists there’s no truth to him wanting to play Lance Armstrong in a movie version of the disgraced cyclist’s life.

“Oh my God, that’s so nuts!” he told Access Hollywood.

Although the 38-year-old actor revealed to BBC News earlier this month he “would be interested” in playing Armstrong, he explained he actually “had no idea what [the interviewer] was talking about.”

“I didn’t even know that J.J. [Abrams] has the rights,” he added. “I had no idea.”

Sigh. Guess that means we won’t be seeing 2012′s Sexiest Man Alive in bike shorts anytime soon.

Source – EOnline.com

Bradley Cooper may just be getting exactly what he’s wished for. Last week the “Silver Linings Playbook” actor told BBC News that he would be interested in playing Lance Armstrong in the upcoming biopic, and now, director JJ Abrams said that he has been speaking to Cooper about the part.

“[Cooper] sent me an email and we’ve been talking,” Abrams told ET.

“I would be interested in [playing Armstrong],” Cooper told BBC News. “I think he’s fascinating. What a fascinating character.”

Abrams is directing the film adaptation of Juliet Macur’s upcoming “Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong.”

Source – Huffington Post

Hey J.J. Abrams, pay attention.

Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper is not wasting any time, and quickly revealed that he would be more than happy to portray Lance Armstrong, after news of a biopic on the former cyclist’s life was announced to be in the works.

“I would be interested in [playing Armstrong],” Cooper told BBC News. “I think he’s fascinating. What a fascinating character.”

“I remember Matt Damon was going to do his autobiography at one point years ago,” he continued, “I remember thinking, that would be a great character, I’d love to play that character. I would love to do something, I think he’s pretty fascinating.”

The biopic will reportedly be based on New York Times sportswriter Juliet Macur’s upcoming book Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong, to which the Lost producer and Paramount Pictures secured the movie rights, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

For the first time ever, Armstrong revealed to Oprah Winfrey during a sit-down for an episode of Oprah’s Next Chapter that he used performance enhancing drugs, saying he didn’t think he could’ve won the Tour de France seven times without them.

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Source – EOnline.com