THEIR on-screen chemistry is undeniable - as performances in Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle and Serena attest - but Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence have always left their romance at work, the actor has insisted.
"It just didn't happen... it's not the way we are together," Cooper told Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show when asked if they had been real-life intimacy between himself and Lawrence, crediting their director for all three films with bringing out the best in them. "It's due to David O. Russell, that's what's happening. We did Silver Linings Playbook together. We got along great."
The actor, who has been Oscar nominated for his work with O.Russel, also took the opportunity to point out that it isn't the 15-year age gap between himself and Lawrence that would stop any flirtation.
"I said that once on a red carpet just as a diffuse thing, and then it became a thing because the girl I was seeing was as young as she was," he said, reports US Weekly, referring to his ex-girlfriend Suki Waterhouse.