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Being Bradley Cooper’s doppelgänger is ‘a daily struggle’

Last month a Bradley Cooper doppelgänger descended upon the Sundance Film Festival and caused quite a stir with fans, paparazzi and clipboard-wielding publicists.

In fact it was friends of Salt Lake City resident Matt Katzenbach who initially dared him to get past the velvet ropes at a festival party merely because of his appearance.

“The entire time I never stated that I was him … They looked at me and said, ‘Come right in,'” Katzenbach told Page Six.

But after Vanity Fair issued a list of tips on properly impersonating the A-list actor (which was inspired by Page Six’s story on the look-alike), Katzenbach put the suggestions to the test by returning to Sundance to film a tongue-in-cheek video, which he released last week under the pseudonym “Cradley Booper.”

But being falsely recognized as the “Silver Linings Playbook” star is nothing new for 27-year-old twins Matt and Scott Katzenbach, whose striking similarity to Cooper has attracted the attention of autograph- and selfie-seekers around the world for the better part of a decade.

“It started when I was a teenager,” Matt Katzenbach explained to Page Six. “Every day [we are recognized] at least two to five times.”

“Now it doesn’t matter where I go. I had paparazzi flood me in a random town in Mexico,” he added. “I went to the Sky Bar [in Bangkok] where they actually shot ‘The Hangover 2’ and was greeted, ‘Oh Mr. Cooper, great to see you, come right in.’ Then tons of people were just flooding and taking pictures. That was kind of the moment when it was totally surreal and I didn’t get it.”

‘It’s not a great life to be under the spotlight and to go to these events or parties or bars or whatever.’

 - Matt Katzenbach

Although their uncanny resemblance to Cooper, 41, occasionally enables them to access swanky events and can be a “good icebreaker” for the entrepreneur and his twin brother, who is currently on sabbatical from a career in the tech industry to travel the globe, it’s not always a blessing.

“At the end of the day, it’s actually enlightening because it’s not a great life to be under the spotlight and to go to these events or parties or bars or whatever,” Katzenbach admitted. “Everyone is asking for pictures or autographs to boost their status. It comes at the expense of [a celebrity’s] privacy — of their being able to be and act like a normal human.”

Katzenbach — who has not yet met the Oscar nominee — would prefer a life of anonymity and describes the attention as “kind of like a daily struggle.”

“In a way I feel sorry for him and for all of the [celebrities.] Some of them want it, right? But I wouldn’t want that life at all,” admitted Katzenbach.

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