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Film hunk Bradley Cooper has revealed his dream jobs as a kid; a chef and ninja. In an interview with E! News' Marc Malkin he admitted, "I just sort of thought it was cool and that chefs were cool when I was a kid and I just thought that chefs were like rock stars."

"So I thought maybe I'd be a chef but then I realized really early it's too hot. The pressure is too insane," continued the actor. "I also thought I wanted to be a ninja, you know what I mean, but then I realized that I only wanted to play them in movies."

Though not becoming a chef, Cooper did admit in the interview that he has "always been fascinated about food." On the matter he stated, "Growing up in an Italian household, my grandmother was an incredible cook and we just grew up with basically food being all that we talked about. You either talked about what you were going to eat, what you just ate, and what you're going to eat tomorrow."

In fact, Cooper admitted that he loves cooking for his friends. "They came over and I would just love to test out stuff," he told E! News. "So it's just something that always came natural to me and then I started working as a prep cook for an Italian restaurant Mirabella's. The head chef there was a 21-year-old guy, who had just come back from Paris ... and I was just sort of in awe of him and I would always ask him to teach me stuff."

Cooper previously played a chef in recovery on the short lived TV series "Kitchen Confidential". In his just released movie "Burnt", he played Adam Jones, a drug addict chef who tried to make a career comeback after getting some sobriety under his belt.