Guardians of the Galaxy star Bradley Cooper (Rocket Raccoon) has detailed a “pretty insane” knife attack he experienced in New York City while on his way to pick up his daughter, Lea, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 46-year-old A Star Is Born alum recently shared his harrowing tale on the “Armchair Expert” podcast. He said:
“I used to walk around New York City all the time with these [headphones] on — this was pre-pandemic — I was on the subway [at] 11:45 to pick Lea downtown at Russian school and I got held up at knifepoint. It was pretty insane. I realized I had gotten way, way too comfortable in the city. My guard was down. … I was all the way at the end of the subway. Innately, I would just go all the way down to the end. I felt somebody coming up. I thought, Oh they want to take a photo or something. As I turned, I’m up against the post like it’s the French Connection or some s–t, and I turned. I looked down and I see a knife.”
Cooper went on to say that the weapon was three inches long and was a “nice knife” with “some history behind it.” Eventually — and fortuitously — the eight-time Academy Award nominee was able to escape from his adversary:
“I just started booking, just started running. I jumped over the turnstile, hid around the white, tiled entrance to the subway [and] took my phone out. He jumped over, running away. I took a photo of him. Then I chased him up the stairs. He started running up 7th Avenue. I took two more photographs of him,” the eight-time Oscar nominee recalled. “I ran down two police officers in an SUV, showed them the photograph and I’m, like, talking to them, and the guy kept saying — it was so interesting — he’s like, ‘Are you stabbed?’ I was like, ‘No, no.’ He was like, ‘Check to see if you’re stabbed.’ What happens is people get stabbed and they’re in shock. I looked to see if he was right. … And then I got back on the subway and picked up my daughter.”
The film that launched the Guardians franchise in 2014 is officially described as:
An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill [Chris Pratt] finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan [Lee Pace], a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits–Rocket [Bradley Cooper], a gun-toting raccoon; Groot [Vin Diesel], a tree-like humanoid; the deadly and enigmatic Gamora [Zoe Saldana]; and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer [Dave Bautista]. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand–with the galaxy’s fate in the balance.
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