(Photo : Getty Images - Clive Brunskill) Bradley Cooper
Wareing, in an interview with People,
said that Cooper -- who in the movie plays a disgraced chef determined
to redeem himself by earning his new Paris restaurant three Michelin
stars -- would "watch me dress a plate and copy it almost identically.
He'd say, 'Is that okay? Are you happy with that?' And I'd stand back
and think, 'It's taken me all my life to get here and you just do it
straightaway!' He's very good."
"Bradley's role is effectively the head chef," Wareing
said. "So my job with him wasn't just to teach him to cook. In fact, it
wasn't actually to teach him to cook at all because that chef is
somebody that's been there and done it. My thinking was making sure that
he is moving like a chef and looking like a chef and directing the
kitchen like a chef. Then eventually we would get to the food that he
would be given by the kitchen behind him to put on a plate and dress the
plate."
The film, for better or worse, is not 90 minutes of food
porn, according to Wareing. "This film is not going to teach you how to
cook," he said. "This is about a man who is obsessed and has to deal
with his inner demons as a perfectionist wanting to achieve the ultimate
goal. This is a character that really exists in the world of food. But I
think Bradley will inspire young people to want to become chefs and
work in this amazing industry."
Cooper, in a recent interview with Yahoo Movies, sang Wareing's praises, calling the celebrity chef "invaluable."
"Marcus prepared and created all of the meals that we
cooked," he said. "There are so many little things in the movie that [my
character] Adam does that's just straight from Marcus -- from the way
he has a spoon in his hand all the time to the way he talks to
everybody. [That's] The mindset you have to have: You literally are a
quarterback."
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