EXCLUSIVE: Bradley Cooper Reveals 'A-Team' Cameo Details For Original Face Actor Dirk Benedict

Whenever a classic franchise like “The A-Team” is adapted for the big screen, it’s no surprise that fans are fascinated by cameos from original cast members. From Mr. T to Dwight Schultz, director Joe Carnahan has been open about where he stands with the original commandos. Now, Bradley Cooper is spilling the beans on the details behind the Dirk Benedict cameo that will bring two famous Face-Men together.

“He plays a guy named Milt,” Cooper said of Benedict’s scene, which teases both actors’ good looks as well as the vanity of Templeton Peck. “We’re in a tanning bed, in prison together.”

Recently, Carnahan told us that Cooper’s take on the character is a bit more testosterone-fueled. And when we caught up with Cooper on the red carpet for this weekend’s “Valentine’s Day,” he said that working opposite the '80s TV icon was one of his favorite days on the “A-Team” movie.

“What a lovely, lovely guy,” Cooper said of Benedict, who has always been so willing to make in-jokes about his past that he even did a “Battlestar Galactica” wink in the original show “A-Team” show. “We talked for a long time; we spent the afternoon together. I learned so much about him, and he’s fantastic.”

While on set, Benedict told Cooper that his take was the sort of tougher “Face” that he had always wanted to do on the show. Some elements, however, have been kept as similar as possible.

“I don’t know if [mine] is tougher, but he loves running his M-4 machine gun, he’s a soldier,” Cooper said of how we’ll see his Templeton Peck in the June 11th film. “I don’t know about ‘Face’ in the TV show, if that was his thing. He didn’t love violence the way [mine does]; you’d see him more sweet talk you.”

“The ‘Face’ that I play, he’s a great pick-pocket; he does that,” Cooper revealed. “But he doesn’t mind getting a little rough too.”

What do you think of the Dirk Benedict/Bradley Cooper cameo in “A-Team”? Do you enjoy seeing the original actors in movies like this?

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