Bradley Cooper and co-star Matt Bomer were seen sharing a kiss on the set of Cooper’s upcoming Netflix film Maestro.

The upcoming Netflix film, Maestro, which will see Bradley Cooper both directing and starring in, is actively filming in NYC. On the set of the film, two of the stars, Bradley Cooper and Matt Bommer, were pictured sharing a tender kiss while the camera pointed at them. Bradley Cooper will be taking on the lead role of Leonard Bernstein so the kiss doesn’t come as a surprise as Bernstein’s sexual proclivities as a gay man were well documented.

Bernstein, who composed musicals such as West Side Story, was one of the most talented composers in the history of the United States and had many sexual ventures, especially after the death of his wife. This includes one relationship of particular note, with Kunihiko Hashimoto, a then 26-year-old Japanese man who worked at an insurance company in Tokyo.

“I noticed that he was gazing upon me,” Kunihiko Hashimoto said. “It is hard to explain about his eyes. It was not to try to talk to me nor seduce me, just he was looking at me. It was irresistible.”

A Japanese academic, Mari Yoshihara, only recently discovered 350 letters between the two that unveiled more of their once hidden relationship.

“After you left Japan, my mind became vacant, because the one night and afternoon that we had were like a beautiful dream.”

In another letter, Hashimoto wrote: “I have received the tenderest letter from you. I read it over and over again.”

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“I never forget that you asked me where we should live. Your question was where ‘we’ should live, wasn’t it?’ I would like to live with you. Even as a maid (but I am not good at cooking and sewing). Even as a secretary (but I cannot type quickly). Even as like a doll (but I have a mind) … I was born to meet you and to be with you.”

The letters were increasingly endearing, painting a relationship of two who are deeply in love: “The letters you wrote to me … the pictures I took in Munich, Positano, Amsterdam, and the presents you gave me … I have kept all of them and locked them in a briefcase.”

The letters spanned 11 years up until the summer of 1990, months before Berstein died at the age of 72.

“Bradley Cooper and Matt Bomer on the set of ‘MAESTRO’ in NYC.”

Maestro is set to stream on Netflix sometime in 2023.

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