Actor Jeff Bridges Shares Some Great Stories about His Dad Lloyd Bridges w/Rich Eisen | 10/12/17

couple more minutes with Jeff Bridges here and I want to talk about your dad for a second yeah okay your Lord was in I don't know how many movies he was in over a hundred or at least right and then he just a couple of things about him that maybe fans might not know about your dad even though I know I do and there's a bunch of people but airplane okay someone I mean your dad's been to some great movies and some great TV shows but he played the role I believe of mccroskey oh yeah in airplane some of the more famous lines about picking the wrong week we got as the kids you know his kids we got such a kick out of it he's playing a total drug addict and it was being teases of who he was a real-life it was such a hell freak but getting the picture right there what is it like seeing your dad I kind of killers we have nutella short sir you know my father had a huge hit on TV called see hunt in the 60s played a skin diver and he played it so well that people thought he was a skin diver and it was great news financially for him because you know really you know we moved into a new big house and everything after that but it was kind of depressing for him as an actor because he developed this strong persona that people thought that's who he was and he was offered a lot of skin-diving scripts you know you'll play this Kananga no no but he saw the the downside of developing this very strong persona because he was a you know he knew Shakespeare was great comedian he was in you mentioned movies High Noon you know Gary Cooper and so I in Mike earlier my career I really tried hard not to develop a strong persona because I saw how my dad struggled with it so now we cut years later to a movie that we talked about called blown away and I'm talking to the producer and I say there's a wonderful actor who could be I'd like you to consider for my playing my uncle he kind of looks like me he's a good acting and the guy says all he laughs he said oh yeah Lloyd Bridges he's wonderful but he's really more of a comedian what are you talking about he says well you know airplane people are gonna the baggage I sell you're gonna make him read for the party so would he read he knocks it out of the park you know and he is he's my uncle so a guy who try to avoid being typecast as a sea diver was watch out you're too good at something you get lucky looks like I picked the wrong week to stop drinking and smoking and then he was on Seinfeld Seinfeld as Mandelbaum that's right what was that like watching your dad at the end of his career on an electronic television show like that it was wonderful he you know was his health was you know kind of you know failing him then and but whenever he got on stage or in front of the camera at all you know start all the Jews he started lifting weights the Rich Eisen show weekdays at noon eastern on radio stations across the country and audience isn't it amazing you can download an app with your thumbprint you should download our app with your thumbprint

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Length: 3min 26sec (206 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 12 2017