Bradley Cooper Hypes Up the Crowd at Football Game in Philadelphia

Hollywood star Bradley Cooper hyped up the crowd as he watched his beloved Philadelphia Eagles during the Monday Night Football game.

The Academy Award-nominated actor, 47, was spotted in the owner's box at the Lincoln Financial Field—more commonly known as the Linc—as the Eagles battled the Minnesota Vikings.

Cooper was spotted on the big screen getting very excited during the game and at one point even pumped his arms to encourage the crowd to cheer more.

The actor donned a T-shirt of former Philadelphia 76ers NBA player Allen Iverson as he cheered on the Eagles to a 24-7 win over the Vikings.

The pair also happened to attend Georgetown University at the same time, where Cooper graduated with honors, majoring in English and minoring in French.

Throughout the night, Cooper was seen engrossed in the game and even standing up as the competition intensified.

Football fans loved seeing Cooper, a Pennsylvania native, celebrating the Eagles.

"Bradley Cooper watching the Eagles while wearing an Allen Iverson t-shirt is chefs kiss," tweeted football analyst Mark Oldacres.

One fan added: "This game was locked up the moment Bradley Cooper got to the Linc."

And another wrote: "Bradley Cooper the biggest cheerleader for the team."

Cooper was not the only star in the house as NBA player James Harden and Phillies outfielder Bryce Harper were also spotted on the sidelines.

Actress and writer Quinta Brunson sat in the stands wearing an Eagles jersey, fresh off her Emmy win for Abbott Elementary.

Cooper's appearance at the football game comes after he faced backlash during filming for his new movie Maestro.

He has been directing the film and also playing West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein.

But some fans were not happy that a non-Jewish actor was playing the famed composer and have described the production's choices of relying on prosthetics to change Cooper's face to look more like Bernstein's as "anti-Semitic."

"This is the most anti-Semitic thing I've ever seen," wrote one Twitter user after the first images of Cooper as Bernstein emerged from the Maestro set.

Responding to Netflix's photos, which also showed Carey Mulligan in character as Bernstein's wife, Felicia Montealegre, Daniel Fienberg, who serves as chief television critic for The Hollywood Reporter, said the movie was marred by "ethnic cosplay."

"Sigh," tweeted Fienberg. "My question, 'How many pounds of latex would it take to make Bradley Cooper into an elderly Jewish man?' was supposed to be rhetorical.

"The answer, BTW [by the way], is 'Enough latex that somebody should probably find it a hair problematic.'"

Fienberg added in a follow-up tweet: "My critiquing of Bradley Cooper converting to Latex Judaism caused me to fail to even notice Carey Mulligan as Leonard Bernstein's first wife, who was Chilean-Jewish. That's a LOT of ethnic cosplay for one movie."

While the actor has not publicly reacted to the criticism, he did open up about his love for Bernstein's work and music in general.

"I wanted to be a conductor since I was a kid," he told Variety earlier in 2022.

"I was obsessed with it, asked Santa Claus for a baton when I was eight," he said.

"Listening to music, falling in love with it and being able to really know every single moment of a piece, like Tchaikovsky's Opus 35 in D major, this violin concerto. I could do it as if I know everything about it without really being able to speak the language, obviously."

Maestro is to be released on Netflix in 2023.