Once you become a parent, you can no longer leave your phone on silent mode. You have to be available at all times in case there’s an emergency and your child needs you, which Bradley Cooper recently experienced. During a press conference in New York City for his movie Maestro, he got a call about his daughter that had him unexpectedly rushing out the door.
About 20 minutes into the conference, Cooper looked at his phone and told the attendees, “So sorry. The school nurse just called me,” per Daily Mail. “Can I just leave the room for a second to call them back and you can keep going. Is that all right?”
Kudos to him for staying cool under pressure! There’s nothing more terrifying than the school nurse calling in the middle of a school day — once I got a call about my 5-year-old falling off the playground at recess with a possible concussion, and now my heart races every time I see his school calling — so it’s awesome that Cooper took the time to explain the situation and then handle it.
The A Star Is Born star, who shares 6-year-old Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper with ex Irina Shayk, later returned and told attendees, per Daily Mail, “I have to go to the school to do something with Lea that needs… I have to apply something that they won’t allow… I have to do it, so it’s like a ten-minute walk.”
Luckily, it doesn’t sound like an emergency. He probably just had to give her some over-the-counter medication or cream or something that schools typically make parents give to their kids without a doctor’s note.
Earlier this month, Lea made her red-carpet debut at a screening of Maestro at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures with her dad on Dec. 12. She looked precious in a cheetah-print dress and a red-and-black crossbody purse standing next to her dad.
They seem to have a great relationship, even if sometimes Cooper gets flustered by his daughter’s questions (don’t we all?). In an interview with Emma Stone for Variety’s “Actors on Actors,” he told the story of one such question Lea recently asked.
“I was with my daughter the other day, she’s like, ‘So what happens after, when you die?’” he said.
Stone responded, “Oh, no!”
“I was like, ‘I actually don’t know,’” Cooper continued. “Because I always tell her the truth.”
Then he shared Lea’s hilarious next question: “Doesn’t Google know?”
“I was like, ‘Oh my god,’” Cooper continued, adding, “Maybe?”
This existential question happened during such a normal time. “We were walking. We were getting ice cream,” he explained, adding why he didn’t look it up, “I don’t like to be on my phone around my daughter.”
He is such an involved dad!
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