Bradley Cooper was spotted at the Democratic convention — and some conservatives are very upset


Bradley Cooper's appearance Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention shocked some conservative fans who seemed to believe he shared the same views as the Navy SEAL he played in 2014's American Sniper.
Chris Kyle, who in 2013 was murdered by a former Marine with PTSD at a gun range, was an outspoken conservative Republican. Cooper, who is not a composite of all of his movie characters, has supported the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence and made donations to Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign and 2008 presidential run, USA Today reports. Now, he's facing a backlash from some vocal Twitter users, with one writing, "Bradley Cooper, the man who portrayed legend Chris Kyle is supporting a woman who gets funded by people who tried to kill Chris Kyle." Others tweeted "Bradley Cooper is promoting Hillary? Too bad. He's dead to me now" and "Bradley Cooper at DNC?! Guess I've seen my last Bradley Cooper movie. Eww Ick."
For the record, Cooper also isn't a space raccoon or a 1970s FBI agent, and he's never woken up in a Las Vegas hotel room with a tiger in the bathroom (actually, I'm not 100 percent sure about that one).
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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