'Sex and the City' stars reveal Bradley Cooper's white lie that landed him the role

During a 1999 episode of Sex and the City, Bradley Cooper secured his first-ever on-screen role by stretching the truth a little. 

According to Sex and the City director and writer Michael Patrick King, who shared the story on Max's And Just Like That...The Writers Room podcast, Cooper, aged 48, managed to land the part through a small fib.

"Bradley Cooper—his first job—he claimed he could drive a stick to secure the role since the character drove a Karmann Ghia," explained King, 68, referring to the Volkswagen model. "4:00 in the morning, another Friday outside 14th Street and I said, ‘Bradley, this is where you drive, you take off.’ And he goes, ‘I can’t drive a stick.’ "

Consequently, King had to make adjustments on the spot. "So we improvised, altered, and adapted," he recounted. "Sarah Jessica's character, Carrie, crawls out of the Karmann Ghia and walks herself home."

In the episode titled "They Shoot Single People, Don't They?", Cooper portrayed Jake, who encounters Bradshaw after her unflattering magazine shoot. He starred alongside Sarah Jessica Parker's character in season 2.