{"id":39798,"date":"2023-09-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/20\/alex-cooper-is-taking-call-her-daddy-to-new-heights\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T12:00:00","slug":"alex-cooper-is-taking-call-her-daddy-to-new-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/20\/alex-cooper-is-taking-call-her-daddy-to-new-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Cooper Is Taking \u2018Call Her Daddy\u2019 to New Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\"><strong>The show that<\/strong> prompted Jane Fonda to call Alex Cooper \u201cone of the best interviewers I\u2019ve ever had\u201d is returning for season four, and that\u2019s not even the biggest news for its 29-year-old star. Moving\u00a0<em>Call Her Daddy<\/em>\u00a0away from Barstool Sports, where it began, resulted in a Spotify deal worth around $60 million; she\u2019s also turned her attention to launching Gen Z talent into the stratosphere via her own media company, Trending. Now, Cooper is here to talk, and to listen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RAISED IN<\/strong> suburban Pennsylvania, Cooper was the middle child of a TV-producer father and a psychologist mother who helped her (and her friends) get through adolescence: \u201cMy house was where you came to process emotions that maybe weren\u2019t as accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY,<\/strong> she wore her signature \u201cDaddy\u201d sweatshirt to make guys \u201cfeel uncomfortable. They\u2019d be frustrated, and I could tell it was because I shouldn\u2019t have this on my chest. They\u2019re like, \u2018We\u2019re Daddy.\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018No, I\u2019m Daddy.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>SHE PLAYED<\/strong> Division 1 soccer in college too. \u201cWhile other people are getting to go to frat parties, you\u2019re thinking, How am I going to get more playing time?\u201d She brings her drive to her new career off the field. \u201cAside from the classic grit, tenacity, and determination, I am so competitive now with myself. I had to advocate for myself with authoritative figures since I was 12. Now I\u2019m able to mold myself depending on who I\u2019m speaking to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>AS THE DUST<\/strong> settles from her moves away from Barstool and her original cohost, Sofia Franklyn, Cooper is \u201cproud that I fought for something that I had built. I can sleep well at night because I know I worked my ass off.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO caption__text\">Jacket by <strong>Prada;<\/strong> ring by <strong>Pomellato.<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW caption__credit\">Photograph by KANYA IWANA. Styled by Rebecca Ramsey.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>GETTING THAT COMPLIMENT<\/strong>\u00a0from Fonda was \u201cthe coolest moment of my career. I cried to my parents afterward.\u201d Another guest highlight? Miley Cyrus. \u201cI\u2019m never starstruck, but I was a massive Hannah Montana fan as a kid, so I\u2019d like to redo that one now we are in different places in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>HER MOST SURPRISING GUESTS<\/strong> were Post Malone (\u201cHe\u2019s the sweetest soul. \u2018Yes, ma\u2019am\u2019 and \u2018Sorry, ma\u2019am\u2019.\u201d) and Gwyneth Paltrow. \u201cI think that her reputation is interesting, because her vibe is so lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>SHE SEES HERSELF<\/strong> more as a producer than a host. \u201cI\u2019m almost just a vessel to ask the questions. When I\u2019m sitting in that chair, I\u2019m already thinking of how I\u2019m going to edit the episode. I grew up in a live-television truck watching my dad, so I\u2019m happy that being on camera has worked for me, but that was never the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>HER INTERVIEW STYLE<\/strong> \u201cis not perfect, but it\u2019s working. I\u2019ll keep sitting in this seat until something needs to change.\u201d She admits, \u201cNobody taught me how to do this and I\u2019m never satisfied. I need to keep changing. So I think a lot of my excitement for season four is taking even more risks: There will be certain vlog episodes that I do that\u2019s an experiential episode, which I can say, no one is doing what I\u2019m doing in the space in terms of format.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>FOR THE MOST PART,<\/strong> Cooper\u2019s been an open book\u2014until she met her fianc\u00e9, film and TV producer Matt Kaplan. Initially, she\u2019d only call him Mr. Sexy Zoom Man on air. \u201cI actually have to work on this in therapy to be like, you cannot exploit this relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2023\/09\/alex-cooper-call-her-daddy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The show that prompted Jane Fonda to call Alex Cooper \u201cone of the best interviewers I\u2019ve ever had\u201d is returning for season four, and that\u2019s not even the biggest news for its 29-year-old star. Moving\u00a0Call Her Daddy\u00a0away from Barstool Sports, where it began, resulted in a Spotify deal worth around $60 million; she\u2019s also turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1792],"class_list":{"0":"post-39798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-from-the-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}