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How Danny McBride Cast [SPOILER] in an Epic Civil War Battle for ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Season 4 Premiere: ‘My Pie-in-the-Sky Pick’
Danny McBride of HBO's 'The Righteous Gemstones' explains how he cast Bradley Cooper as a Civl War soldier in the Season 4 premiere.
For the final season premiere of “The Righteous Gemstones,” the HBO comedy that chronicles a fictional family of megachurch pastors in South Carolina, creator and star Danny McBride knew he had to nail the casting. “Gemstones” had done episode-length flashbacks before, but always with younger versions of characters we already know, like patriarch Eli (John Goodman) or siblings Jesse (McBride), Judy (Edi Patterson) and Kelvin (Adam Devine). But he’s also pivoted to prestige projects in recent years, directing himself in the Oscar-nominated films “Maestro” and “A Star Is Born” — and until McBride sent Cooper the script for the episode, titled “Prelude,” the actor had never previously watched the show.
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