BRADLEY Cooper and a tired Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson talk about some of the challenges of playing, respectively, Faceman and BA Baracus in the big screen revival of classic ‘80s TV show The A-Team.

Bradley also reveals what it was like to work alongside original Faceman, Dirk Benedict. They were both speaking at the UK press conference for the movie.

Q. What was it like playing Face, who has this beautiful air of vanity, in The A-Team?
Bradley Cooper: You know, maybe I missed the boat because I didn’t see it that way. I don’t know why… maybe I was busy tanning! But I didn’t really see him as that vain… I guess he was, but I just thought he was bored in prison and maybe he liked being outdoors. So, he wanted to get some sun. And he was just in shape because he was a lethal A-Team member. So, I didn’t really see him as an exfoliator.

Q. Did you sustain any injuries given the physicality of the role?
Bradley Cooper: Liam and I bore the brunt of most of that stuff. I tore my hamstring heading back to my trailer, after lunch. It was a brutal shoot [laughs]. Everybody else was fine. My trailer was way, way back. I could barely see it.

Q. Dwight Schultz and Dirk Benedict have cameos in the movie, so what was it like working alongside them? And have they given their approval to the project?
Bradley Cooper: I didn’t get a chance to meet Dwight Schultz, although I would have liked to because I loved Murdock when I was a kid. Dirk Benedict was great. We did a scene where we’re in a tanning booth in prison and I remember being in the make-up trailer watching him in his black Speedo being sponged with brown tan, as I was simultaneously, and thinking: “There’s something that doesn’t happen every day!” I’ll always take that with me.

Q. You OK Quinton, you look tired…
Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson: I don’t understand why they have a British premiere and then early the next morning stage the junket [laughs]. In fighting, you don’t do that! See, Liam and I like to have fun… we like the night-life. You might find Liam and I at the club or in a bar dancing and with a drink in our hand, or whatever. Bradley and Sharlto are probably reading a book or something… [laughs]

Q. Are there any other TV shows you’d like to see revived or would like to take a shot at?
Bradley Cooper: Well, I don’t think you could re-create Angie’s performance but Murder She Wrote was the best!

Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson: We should do MASH next. I could be an extra in that. Or what about Knight Rider? I could be Kitt.

Read our review of The A-Team

Read our interview with Joe Carnahan

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