I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.
Jeff BridgesAny role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.
Jeff BridgesThere's lots of good movies where you feel that the dialogue could be improvised, but very little was. The "Big Lebowski" was like that where people say "oh, you know, that sounds so..." and we'd always go back and get every man, every ellipses in there the way these guys write it. Because not only is it saying what Michael wants the character to say but the way they all speak kind of creates this tone because it's not exactly real.
Jeff BridgesWhenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
Jeff Bridges