Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Tariro yebasa raCooper yakavandudzwa nebasa rakakurumbira muDavid Dobkin-akatungamira komedhi Wedding Crashers (2005) padivi paOwen Wilson, Vince Vaughn naRachel McAdams. Mufirimu racho, akabata Sack Lodge, mukomana anozvikudza uye ane utsinye waClaire (McAdams) uyo anobatwa nekukunda <unk>chinzvimbo chaanotsanangura se "rudzi rwemagariro evanhu". Cooper akatenda kuti hunhu hweanopikisa hwakachinja maonero evanhu kwaari, sezvo akambotamba "mukomana akanaka". Nebhajeti yokugadzira ye $40 miriyoni, firimu racho rakawana mari inopfuura $285 miriyoni munyika yose. MunaGunyana 2005, Fox yakatanga sitcom Kitchen Confidential, yakavakirwa pane ndangariro nemubiki Anthony Bourdain, naCooper mune chinzvimbo chikuru. Kunyangwe paine ongororo dzakanaka dzeakateedzana, chiratidziro chakabviswa mushure mezvikamu zvina chete nekuda kwekutarisa kwakaderera.MunaKurume 2006, Cooper akabata semutambi wePip / Theo mumazuva matatu emvura paBroadway naJulia Roberts naPaul Rudd. Izvi zvakateverwa nezvikamu zvidiki mumutambo werudo Failure to Launch (2006) uye mutambo wekuseka The Comebacks (2007). Cooper akatevera akaonekwa mumwaka wechishanu weNip / Tuck (2007) saAidan Stone, nyeredzi yeterevhizheni pachiratidziro chekunyepedzera Hearts 'N Scalpels. Muna 2008, akabata chinzvimbo chikuru muOlder than America, uye akaonekwa pachikuva mukugadzirwa kwaTheresa Rebeck mutambo The Understudy kuWilliamstown Theatre Festival padivi paKristen Johnston. Pakati pemabasa ake madiki eshamwari yepamwoyo kune hunhu hukuru mumitambo ya2008 Yes Man uye The Rocker, Cooper akawana chinzvimbo chinotungamira muRyuhei Kitamura-akatungamira firimu rinotyisa The Midnight Meat Train (2008), zvichibva paClive Barker's 1984 nyaya pfupi yezita rimwe chete. Kutamba hunhu husina kujeka hwemutori wemifananidzo anoshanda akazvimirira uyo anoedza kuteedzera mhondi yakateedzana kwaive kutsauka kubva kumabasa aCooper ekutanga enyambo uye chiitiko chaakawana chinonakidza. Iyi firimu yakagamuchira ongororo dzakanaka kubva kune vanotsoropodza, kunyangwe isina kuwana zvakanyanya pabhokisi hofisi.  Mubvunzo: Cooper akaoneka saani mupurogiramu inonzi Nip/Tuck?
Aidan Stone