Bradley Cooper’s latest film can’t wrap soon enough for locals in this Queens neighborhood.
The “A Star Is Born” actor and director is again stepping behind-the-scenes, this time directing Laura Dern and Will Arnett in “Is This Thing On?”
But the film, which also stars Cooper, is apparently wreaking havoc with residents — and their pets — in leafy Douglaston, we hear.
Some neighbors are grousing about the film’s late-night filming, including loud generators allegedly running until 1a.m. and 2 a.m. Multiple vans are also allegedly blocking roads and driveways as they pick film people up for hours, a source told Page Six.
The project has been shooting mostly at night, but the noise is “all day and night,” one local alleged to Page Six.
The project — which Cooper is also producing, and acting as a camera operator for — was previously reportedly shooting in Midtown Manhattan and Forest Hills, Queens.
The production started shooting in Douglaston, a popular location for movie shoots, last week. But they’ve been unusually disrespectful, at least according to the local, who explained they’ve experienced several film shoots through the years, including the 2010 film, “Rabbit Hole,” starring Nicole Kidman.
(“American Gangster,” “Little Children” and “Run All Night” are a few other films that have shot in the nabe).
“I’ve never seen anything like this. Roads are blocked off. No one asked if they could put cables on my driveway! I went flying over this big box they left over the cables,” a local source said.
The nonstop noise and crew traffic throughout the neighborhood has also been upsetting the source’s dog!
“This little guy is a barker, and these people are driving him nuts… 80 people running and screaming all day,” they said.
The crew has even tried to prevent the resident from walking the dog, they claim. “This lady stops me and [says], ‘Can you wait?’ No! I’ve had it with you,” they told us.
Dern, on the other hand, “was very sweet,” they said. Unfortunately, not even “sweet” Dern could keep the dog from barking.
The plot of the movie is being kept under wraps, but Cooper has hinted at his “small role” in it.
“I play a guy who’s an understudy actor and he’s understudying a play called ‘The 13 Disciples,’ and he’s understudying all of them. So that’s what this is about,” he told ESPN’s “Pat McAfee Show” this year.
Cooper added he “just plays [Arnett’s] best friend” in the feature, but our sources haven’t spotted either actor in Douglaston.
Reps for Cooper and the film did not comment.
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