Bradley Cooper is all about freedom!
The Maestro actor-director was a guest on this week’s episode of The Armchair Expert podcast with host Dax Shepard, and the men got candid about how comfortable they are with being in the nude around their house.
When going through his morning routine, Shepard admitted that his and Kristen Bell’s two daughters — Delta, 8, and Lincoln, 10 — find their way into the bathroom with him during “poopy time” and “they don’t care” what he’s doing.
“They can sit and talk to me like a foot away from me, and it’s awful in there,” he shared.
After asking Cooper if it’s the same deal with his and Irina Shayk’s 6-year-old daughter, Lea, the Hangover star confessed that she has no problem being in the bathroom with him, simply because she has no choice with the way the house is structured.
“My bedroom is the bathtub and toilet and bed are all in the same room. It’s 24/7, dude,” he shared through laughter. “There are no doors. … The stairs go up and it’s all one floor.”
He added, “We talk while I’m on the toilet and she’s in the bathtub, that’s the go-to.”
The two dads question why their kids don’t mind the smell, but Cooper revealed that his daughter’s upbringing is wildly different than his.
“Here’s what’s interesting,” Cooper said. “I didn’t grow up that way. At all. I don’t think I ever saw my father on the toilet until he got sick. Like, ever in my life.”
Cooper did reveal that like his father, Charles, who died in 2011, was “always nude.”
“Me too. And by the way, I was like that. Not with my mom but with my dad. My dad was always nude, always took showers with him,” he shared.
Shepard then asked if Cooper is “quite comfortable nude.” He replied, “totally.”
Cooper and ex Shayk welcomed their daughter in 2017. The two called it quits two years later.
In the interview, the 49-year-old actor-director revealed how his daughter has impacted his life.
“Being a parent? Honestly, I’m not sure I’d be alive if I wasn’t a dad. I don’t know,” he said about his relationship with Lea.
When asked if he knows what would have happened if he didn’t have that role, he’s not sure.
“I don’t know. I don’t know man, I’m not sure,” he added.
Cooper shared that he thinks about his daughter’s future and the idea of the person she’s going to eventually end up in a relationship with. Like most dads, he wonders if the person will be like him.
“I think about that a lot, in terms of how does my relationship with my daughter impact her growth and the journey that she’s going to be on? And specifically romantically in life, wherever intimacy finds her,” Cooper said.
Referencing the amount of time he spent with his late father, Cooper said that he’s already done a better job with spending time and building a relationship with Lea.
“I’ve clocked that she’s going to be seven in March. You know my relationship with my dad — I didn’t spend a lot of time with him. I think I’ve already logged more hours with my daughter than I did with my dad his entire life. So that alone is bonkers. The sheer just amount of time that my daughter and I have hung out is bonkers. I can just feel the safety that she feels, it’s so tangible .. it’s fulfilling,” he said.
Cooper said that Lea has an ability to articulate her feelings, so much so that it’s moved him and Shayk.
“Her mother and I bawled over this human being that we’re raising that is able to articulate in her voice,” he gushed.
While he’s good at navigating his relationship with Lea now, he had a little trouble connecting with her in the first few months of her life.
“The first eight months — I don’t even know if I really love the kid,” he shared about his feelings. “It’s dope. It’s cool. I’m watching this thing morph.”
Cooper and Lea put their daddy-daughter relationship on display in December when she joined him on the carpet for his film Maestro, which she also has a small role in. In January, 360aproko asked the star if Lea would be his date for the Academy Awards, to which he coyly replied, “I mean, let’s see what happens.”
