Bradley Cooper Rocks New Haircut On Washington Visit, Raises Awareness Of Mental Health Issues

Bradley Cooper debuted a new cropped haircut while he was in Washington, D.C., to speak at the White House Mental Health Conference on Monday – saying goodbye to the long slick-backed look he sported while promoting The Hangover IV.

Cooper has become an advocate for mental illness awareness since his turn as a manic-depressive named Pat in David O. Russell’s Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook. Both Cooper and his costar Jennifer Lawrence received Oscar nods for their performances, with Lawrence ultimately taking home the trophy for Best Actress.

_{Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook}

“I’m sort of here by accident,” he said, referring to the influence of his movie role. “It’s not that I didn’t know about mental illness. I think it’s just that I just didn’t see it as a part of my life. It was really as if a veil had been lifted,” Cooper added.

“I realized that people that I knew, people that I loved and cared about, they were coping with this in silence.”

Earlier in the year, Cooper held a Q&A with dozens of military vets following the screening of Silver Linings Playbook at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

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