“We didn’t officially start dating until a few weeks after filming, when she came to New York to meet my mom, and I asked her to be my girlfriend,” Cooper told The Hollywood Reporter. “It was very sweet.”“We didn’t officially start dating until a few weeks after filming, when she came to New York to meet my mom, and I asked her to be my girlfriend,” Cooper told The Hollywood Reporter. “It was very sweet.”
Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining the celebrity couples that give us hope for our own romantic futures and trying to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds.
I’ll admit it: my face automatically settled into an eye roll of Liz Lemon-esque proportions when I read this week that director Paul Thomas Anderson had told Licorice Pizza star Cooper Hoffman to work as a “COVID production assistant” on the set of Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans in 2021. As Hoffman related to the Hollywood Reporter: “He told me, ‘You’ve seen how this side lives, now you have to see the other side.’” As if it’s not difficult enough to land a PA job in Hollywood without the children of famous actors swooping in! (But Hoffman quickly won me back by charmingly discussing his aversion to bothering Anderson for roles. “Can you imagine if I texted him, like, ‘Part for Coop?’ You don’t do that to Paul.”)
