I love it! Brandon Voss has interviewed Greg In Hollywood fave Bradley Cooper for the new issue of The Advocate and asked him all the questions you want to ask the former Alias star whose movie career is going strong with such hits as The Wedding Crashers and this year’s He’s Just Not That Into You. He talks about gay slurs used in movies, about having his shirt off a lot and about gay rumors.

I’ll share with you bhere his memories of first movie role a decade ago as a gay camp counselor in Wet Hot American Summer:

What do you remember about shooting that scene with costar Michael Ian Black?
I remember every second of that scene. We shot it about three or four weeks into shooting, which made it better because I had gotten to know him. Those guys all knew each other through The State and other things, but I was still in school at the Actors Studio and didn’t know anybody. I just sort of auditioned for that movie randomly and was so lucky to get it. So I’m playing Ping-Pong with him the first night I arrived, and I was like, “So, we’re going to fuck in a few weeks.” [Laughs] We came up with the idea to keep our socks on, and we put tons of that sweat stuff all over our bodies to make them shine.

Did you guys argue —
About who was going to take it? No, it was very clear that my character was going to be the recipient of that kind of love. There was not even a question.

And in the film your character had a happy ending and a wedding ceremony. What are your thoughts on gay marriage?
Sean Penn summed it up perfectly when he talked about how years from now we’ll look back and think, How could you not have seen the idiocy of not allowing gay marriage? I actually auditioned to play James Franco’s role in Milk — I really wanted that — but oh, my God, Franco just killed it.

What do you think of gay rumors about yourself?
I think it’s awesome. Victor Garber is one of my best friends, and I’ll never forget when we went to some event together and people thought we were dating. It was all over the Internet. It was the first time I read a rumor like that about me, and I just thought it was fantastic. But if you believe those rumors, every single male in Hollywood is gay.

Feeling exploited as cocky actor Aidan Stone playing a doctor in Nip/Tuck’s show-within-a-show Hearts & Scalpels, your character protested, “How come I’m the only one in my goddamn underwear?” Do you feel similar frustration in your own life? Because, not that I’m complaining, you lose your shirt in just about everything, including The Hangover.
Well, that’s in my contract. [Laughs] In the Hangover script I was actually supposed to just be in my underwear the whole scene when we wake up in the morning, but I put my shirt on pretty fast. Certainly with Nip/Tuck we wanted to utilize how outrageous that character was. [Series creator-writer] Ryan Murphy and I talked about how Aidan’s more than bisexual; he just wants to fuck everything. So I brought a lot of ideas to the table, like, “What if he’s stretching and he’s got on really tight, crazy underwear?” But I thought that served the character. Otherwise, honestly, we as humans have our shirts off sometimes, so you just happen to catch my characters at those moments.

You’re wrong, because every time I look at myself on-screen I’m like, Damn, I got to get in shape.

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