Bradley Cooper has revealed that filming full frontal nude scenes in Nightmare Alley for six hours was "pretty heavy".
The 47-year-old actor - who stars as Stanton Carlisle in the 2021 film - recalled his experience of filming an intimate scene with co-star Toni Collette.
Cooper told The Hollywood Reporter that he can still remember the day he had to shoot the nude scene in Guillermo Del Toro’s new film as it required him to be "naked in front of the crew for six hours".
"I remember reading in the script and thinking, he's a pickled punk in that bathtub and it's to story. You have to do it," the actor said.
"I can still remember that day, just to be naked in front of the crew for six hours, and it was Toni Collette’s first day. It was just like, 'whoa'. It was pretty heavy."
Cooper said he never raised any questions or pushed back on the scene because "there was nothing gratuitous about it".
Based on William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel, Nightmare Alley follows the story of Stan as he crafts a golden ticket to success by swindling the elite and wealthy in 1940s New York.
Hoping for a big score, he soon hatches a scheme to con a dangerous tycoon with help from a mysterious psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett as Dr Lilith Ritter), who might be his most formidable opponent yet.
It comes as Cooper revealed that gift-giving skills weren't quite up to par this year, according to his daughter.
The Oscar-winning actor, 47, shares four-year-old daughter Lea De Seine with ex-girlfriend and supermodel Irina Shayk.
Though he rarely talks about his daughter on camera, he couldn't help but share a hilarious story during his appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week.
The Hangover star explained that his daughter was left disappointed by her Ghostbusters Christmas present.
"For those of you that have kids, they really push that Ghostbusters laser on every commercial in between cartoons, so she wanted that, she had to get that. She got that," Cooper said, going on to add that Lea didn't find the gift realistic enough.
"She's like 'Where's the laser, though?'" Cooper recalled his daughter asking after opening her gift. "It's just a little plastic thing, but you do capture the ghost... She wanted the real laser."
"I thought you were a big star, Dad," Colbert teased the actor, to which he confessed: "I couldn't deliver."
Nightmare Alley is out in theaters across the US, and will be released in the UK on January 21.