Bradley Cooper Held at Knifepoint on New York City Subway Platform – The Hollywood Reporter
Bradley Cooper says he got “too comfortable” with AirPods, leading to an incident on a New York City subway platform that could have ended with him getting stabbed.
While appearing on the latest episode of Armchair specialist podcasts, Nightmare Alley the star recalled an event he said took place before the pandemic when he “used to walk around New York City all the time” with his AirPods on. In a discussion that began with co-host Dax Shepard sharing how he uses Apple headphones to deal with overstimulation while in Paris with his children and wife Kristen Bell, Cooper joined with his own experience of how completely noise-cancelling headphones have made him. I am not aware of the dangerous situation I am in.
The actor said the incident happened when he was on his way to pick up his young daughter Lea – with whom he shares ex-girlfriend and model Irina Shayk – from school. “I was on the subway – 11:45 to pick up Lea downtown,” he explains. “And I was held with a knife.”
“It’s pretty crazy. But I realized that I had a way, too comfortable in this. I was caught off guard by the headphones,” he added. “That takes away a sensory guide – gone.”
Cooper – who noted that in addition to wearing AirPods, he was trying to stay “incognito” in sunglasses and a hat – walked to a spot on the platform to wait for a train when someone approached him. “I go all the way to the end of the subway, which I innately go all the way to the end, right? And I felt someone come in and I thought, ‘Oh, they want to take a picture or something. I am against posts like it The French Connection or some damn thing, and then I turn around and look down and I see a knife. ”
The actor describes the knife as about 2.5 inches long with a wooden handle, similar to a pocket knife. “I remember, I go, ‘That’s a nice knife.’ It has some history. It’s an heirloom like it’s his father’s,” Cooper joked.
When he recognized the knife, Cooper said he looked at the person holding it, and “see how young they are” before going against his instincts and “reserving” it.
“I just started running, jumping through the turnstile, hitting around the entrance to the subway’s white tiled lobby, taking out my phone,” he recalls before explaining that whoever was holding the knife was quick to get out. out of there, leading to Cooper’s pursuit. after him.
“He jumped over, ran away. And I took a picture of him and then I chased him up the stairs. He started running up Seventh Avenue. I took two more pictures of him,” The star was born said the actor. “I took out two police officers in an SUV.”
After showing officers the photo, one asked Cooper to check whether he was physically harmed, something the actor said he hadn’t thought of, but it turned out he wasn’t. stab.
“Did he keep saying I was stabbed? And I said, ‘No, no.’ He said, ‘No, no. Check to see if you have been stabbed. ‘ What happens is people get stabbed and they go into shock. So I looked to see if he was right. It was crazy.”
