Bradley Cooper will not be recognized as Leonard Bernstein in future Netflix biographies

He looks important, but he is only vaguely familiar. He seems to be his uncle who has been missing for a long time, or an old man playing chess every day in the park.

Cooper, 47, also directs the film and follows up on “A Star Is Born.” Carey Mulligan will be co-starring Bernstein’s wife, Felicia Montealegre, and Jeremy Strong (Kendall Roy in “Succession”) as critic John Gruen.

The new promotional photo also shows that Cooper is a young Bernstein, sharing a smile with Mulligan’s Monte Alegre.

Bernstein, the world legend of the musical theater, is best known for composing the music for the 1957 Broadway show “West Side Story,” which produced the 1961 film and Steven Spielberg’s recent remake. I did. He died in 1990 at the age of 72.

Little is known about the “Maestro” scheduled for 2023. Internet movie database says It’s about “a complex love story between Leonard and Felicia, a story that lasts for more than 30 years, from the time we met at the party in 1946 to two engagements, a 25-year marriage, and three children.”

Spielberg, like the filmmaker Martin Scorsese, is one of the film’s producers. According to varietyThe production of the movie started this month.