Robert Pattinson, 37, Hollywood vampire, slept in a rubber boat for six months. Like the “Twilight” star the magazine Architectural Digest revealed, he didn’t have a real bed at the start of his career. “There was a time when the only piece of furniture I had for about six months was an inflatable boat that I used as a sofa, bed and dining table all at the same time,” the Brit explained. “I loved it a lot, but it caused a lot of back problems.”
Bradley Cooper, 48, actor, spent six years practicing for a film scene that lasts just under six and a half minutes. To play the role of conductor Leonard Bernstein, the Hollywood star not only had to learn how to conduct a symphony orchestra, but also how to conduct it in Bernstein’s style. “That scene made me so worried because we played it live,” Cooper told the industry portal Indiewire at a screening of the drama “Maestro” in New York. Cooper said he filmed it together with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Madonna, 65, singer, likes to test her fans’ patience. After her tour planned in June had to be postponed due to a serious bacterial infection, the first German concert of her world tour started four months late. However, her fans had to wait for the singer again in the almost sold-out Lanxess Arena in Cologne. The stage show didn’t start until around 10 p.m., an hour and a half later than announced.
Fabrice Morvan, 57, former half of Milli Vanilli, sees himself as a scapegoat. The disco pop duo (“Girl You Know It’s True”), produced by Frank Farian, broke up in 1990 after it was revealed that neither had ever sung themselves. “We were thrown to the wolves,” Morvan told the German Press Agency. Everyone else would have shirked their responsibility. “When the story came out, everyone kept their mouths shut.” The others simply continued and climbed the career ladder. “But Rob and Fab? They’ve been forgotten.” As a result of the cheating scandal, Morvan and Robert Pilatus were stripped of their Grammys. Pilatus died of an overdose in 1998.