The Film Comment Podcast: Jeff Bridges Makes a Decision
Relax and repeat: this year’s recipient of FLC’s Chaplin Award discusses his iconic movies—and how he ended up in them often in spite of himself
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Relax and repeat: this year’s recipient of FLC’s Chaplin Award discusses his iconic movies—and how he ended up in them often in spite of himself
When production was set to resume on FX's The Old Man after its pandemic shutdown, star Jeff Bridges learned he had lymphoma. But his cancer treatment wasn't as bad, he says, as the Covid that followed. Bridges recovered and completed the series, about an ex–CIA agent who's pulled back into the fold. And he came back in the style imprinted on him by his father,
Writer Ingrid Randoja recalls chatting about a character who would become an indelible part of pop culture by Norman Wilner on March 12th, 2021 at 10:30 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2 Look at Jeff Bridges on that cover. Just look at him. He’s 48, he’s happy, and he has absolutely no idea he’s just played the role that will define him for the rest of his natural life. Before The Big Lebowski, Bridges was a well-regarded character actor; the kind you could cast as a slippery hero or a complicated villain, an alien or a cowboy, a goofball sidekick or a man grappling with having survived a plane c...