Actor Will Arnett has revealed how “scary” it was doing live stand-up comedy as he prepared to play a novice comedian in Bradley Cooper’s new movie “Is This Thing On?”.
Cooper’s third film as a director chronicles a middle-aged man finding solace in stand-up comedy after splitting from his wife, and is loosely based on the life of British comic John Bishop.
Canadian actor Arnett, who co-wrote the screenplay with Cooper and British screenwriter Mark Chappell, told AFP he fully immersed in the nowhere-to-hide world of stand-up comedy for the role.
“It was very scary,” he said as the comedy-drama premiered for the first time outside the United States at the London Film Festival on Tuesday.
“For six weeks when we were in prep on the movie I went up every night… about three times a night, f