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Bradley Cooperis opening up about being held at knifepoint while on the way to pick up his daughter from school.
TheNightmare Alleyactor, 46, revealed ontheArmchair ExpertpodcastMonday that in October 2019, a stranger pulled a knife on him while he was on the subway in New York City. Cooper recalled wearing noise-canceling headphones, sunglasses and a hat trying to be “incognito” while going to pick up his daughterLea De Seine, who was 2½ years old at the time.
“I used to walk around New York City all the time with [headphones] on — and this was pre-pandemic — and I was on the subway, 11:45, to pick Lea up downtown at Russian school, and I got held up at knifepoint,” Cooper began.
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Co-host Dax Shepard, who made the 2012 movieHit and Runwith Cooper, asked, “How are we best friends and I’m just learning” about this story? They laughed together as Cooper said, “Yeah, it was pretty insane.”
“I realized I had gotten way, way too comfortable in the city. My guard was down,” continued Cooper.
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The Oscar nominee, who shares his daughter with exIrina Shayk, explained he was at the end of the subway when someone approached him. He thought at first it was someone asking for a selfie, however: “I look down and I see a knife.” He estimated that it was maybe a two-and-a-half-inch blade, joking, “I remember thinking ‘That’s a nice knife.’ "
But Cooper recalled that he “knocked” the attacker’s arm up and ran to escape, jumping over the turnstile. When the person also started running away, the actor took photos of him and approached police officers outside the subway station.
Cooper said, “Then I got back in the subway and picked up my daughter. It was crazy.”
Nightmare Alleyis out Dec. 17.
source: people.com
