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Bradley Cooper played an ambitious carny with Rooney Mara as an electric girl in a teaser trailer released Thursday for Nightmare Alley.
The 46-year-old actor portrays Stanton 'Stan' Carlisle in the psychological thriller directed by Guillermo del Toro, 56, based on the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham.
The teaser trailer opened with Stanton entering carnival life and showed him dancing with fellow carnival worker Molly Cahill, played by Rooney, 36.
Carnival life: Bradley Cooper played an ambitious carny with Rooney Mara as an electric girl in a teaser trailer released Thursday for Nightmare Alley.
Carnival talker Clem Hoately, played by 66-year-old William Dafoe, throughout the preview barked about a 'man or beast' creature as he offered folks a chance to see the 'supreme oddity'.
Stanton later becomes psychic 'The Great Stanton'and is shown growing close to psychiatrist Dr. Lilith Ritter, played by Cate Blanchett, 52.
Clips were shown of the ensemble cast that also includes Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins, David Strathairn and
