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Bradley Cooper and his Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell are the latest Oscar hopefuls to participate in The LA Times' The Envelope Screening series and ETonline has an exclusive clip from their chat!

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Watch the two men talk about what originally brought them together and what it means to Cooper to "be in a David O. Russell movie."

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