Bradley Cooper Explains Why He Is 'Totally' Comfortable Being Naked in His Household

Bradley Cooper is comfortable being in his birthday suit.

While on the Armchair Expert podcast this week, the Maestro actor-director discussed nudity at home. The subject came up when co-host Dax Shepard explained his morning routine and mentioned that his daughters talk to him unbothered while he uses the bathroom.

During his "poopy time," the "girls start filing in, they start chatting with me, and it's amazing they don't care," said Shepard, who shares daughters Delta, 9, and Lincoln, 10, with Kristen Bell.

"The girls start coming in and out — is this the same with Lea? Where they sit and talk to me, like a foot away from me, and it's terrible in there!" added Shepard.

Cooper, who has 6½-year-old daughter Lea with ex Irina Shayk, said of his New York City living space while laughing, "My bedroom is, the bathtub and toilet and bed are all in the same room. It's 24/7, dude! There are no doors. ... The stairs go up and it's all one floor."

Asked Shepard, "Do you find that your daughter doesn't care at all?"

"Yeah, no, no. We talk where I'm on the toilet, she's in the bathtub; that's sort of the go-to," said Cooper.

Shepard continued, "Great biological question surrounding this: Is it your genes that makes you not care? Or is it just the nurture of it all? It's insane that they don't care."

"Here's what's interesting," said Cooper, "I didn't grow up that way. At all. I don't think I ever saw my father on the toilet until he got sick. Like, ever in my life." (The star's father Charles died in January 2011 from cancer.)

Shepard said his household runs "Swedish style," explaining "we're naked all the time." Cooper, meanwhile, can relate: "Me too. And by the way, I was like that. Not with my mom but with my dad. My dad was always nude, always took showers with him."

"And you're quite comfortable nude," Shepard said to the Oscar nominee, who replied, "Totally."

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Cooper previously spoke about having to be nude "in front of the crew for six hours" while filming a scene for the 2021 movie Nightmare Alley. "It was just like, 'Whoa.' It was pretty heavy," he said at the time.

He wasn't fazed by the nudity requirement "because there was nothing gratuitous about it. It was to story." Cooper added, "The content of what the movie is, what we were exploring, in order to do it in a real way, it demanded that we'd be naked emotionally and soulfully."