Bradley Cooper rushes out of ‘Maestro’ press conference for daughter Lea — here’s why

Work can wait.

Bradley Cooper abruptly left a press conference for his film “Maestro” after he received a phone call about his daughter, Lea, on Thursday.

“So sorry. The school nurse just called me,” he said, according to the Daily Mail.

“Can I just leave the room for a second to call them back and you can keep going?” he asked. “Is that all right?”

The Oscar nominee, 48, returned, but told the crowd that he had “to go to the school to do something with Lea that needs” without going into further detail.

“I have to apply something that they won’t allow,” he explained. “I have to do it, so it’s, like, a 10-minute walk.”

The “Silver Linings Playbook” actor shares Lea De Seine, 6, with ex Irina Shayk. They welcomed their daughter two years after they began dating and later split in June 2019.

Cooper has been romantically linked to Gigi Hadid as of late. Hadid, 28, and Shayk, 37, recently arrived separately to support the actor when he was slinging cheesesteaks in New York City at West Third Street near Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village.

The “A Star Is Born” actor teamed up with Danny DiGiampietro, the owner of Angelo’s Pizzeria in South Philadelphia, to serve from a food truck for charity.

In March 2021, Shayk opened up about being on good terms with her ex as they coparent their little one.

“When I’m with my daughter, I’m 100 percent a mother, and when she’s with her dad, he’s 100 percent her dad. Coparenting is parenting,” she told Elle at the time. “My past relationship, it’s something that belongs to me, and it’s private. It’s just a piece of my inner self that I don’t want to give away.”

Earlier this year, Cooper also talked about fatherhood in an episode of “Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge.”

“I mean you learn from your predecessor’s mistakes and I’ll make tons that hopefully Lea will learn from and then being rigorous with myself to grow. To help unburden her with any of my bulls—,” he said.

To NPR in 2018, he added: “I guess having a child, and having a family of my own — which is a miracle and something I’ve always dreamt of — has opened me up even more, I guess, to the day, and to be present.”

Lea made her red carpet debut with her famous dad for “Maestro” on Dec. 12. She’s his co-star, playing a younger version of Leonard Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie.