TC: That’s ultimately what’s been really awesome about Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird as an introduction [to me]: I was up for bigger, more commercial projects, but I didn’t get them. FO: Those films are excellent.

When I catch up with him on the phone, it’s still the first half of January, so I ask him about his 2017 favorites. He names some films—The Florida Project, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Blade Runner 2049, Lady Bird, I, Tonya.

“I love that movie,” Cooper exclaims of Lady Bird, which was nominated for five Oscars this winter. “I voted for that movie. I love that movie . . . that’s like a perfect film.”

Basically #GretaGerwig made a film about my adolescence in Sacramento & ditching it for college in NY. The first time I watched @LadyBirdMovie I was so struck by our parallel lives that I had to watch it immediately again. Oh also, I lost my virginity to Dave Matthew's CRASH