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The Independent UK
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Tom Murray

Steven Spielberg told Bradley Cooper he ‘must’ direct Maestro after watching 20 minutes of A Star Is Born

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One of the producers behind Maestro, Netflix’s forthcoming biopic about the late American composer Leonard Bernstein, has divulged the way in which Bradley Cooper came to produce, direct, and star in the movie.

Co-produced by Hollywood heavyweights Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, Maestro is described as a “love letter to life and art” and depicts the decades-long relationship between Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre Bernstein (played by Carey Mulligan).

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