Please welcome, the very talented Jeff Bridges!
Yeah, they're a cool audience.
You're a cool guy.
That's why they're--
Yeah!
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Now, you really are.
You're just truly-- I've loved you for a long time.
I love everything that you do.
I think that you're just so interesting to watch
all the time.
Oh, thank you, thank you so much.
You really are.
Now, so, four times, you've been nominated?
What about this year?
Do you think this is the year that you're
going to win the Oscar?
I don't know.
We'll see, we'll see.
You got to get nominated first.
You will.
You will be.
You're amazing!
You should be nominated in every single thing
that-- you've done, like, 60 films, haven't you?
Yeah, close, pretty close, not quite 60, but somewhere
in there.
59?
Yeah, 58, 59.
52, 57, 54.
Somewhere in between.
All right, well, I'll nominate you.
Can I do that?
Surely, you can do that.
I think I have that kind of pull.
Nominate him!
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Watch.
Watch it happen!
So, a big showbiz family, too.
This Oscars must be a big event for the whole family
every year.
Well, every time-- when I've been nominated,
my family gets very behind me.
But it gets embarrassing sometimes.
I remember, I think the second time
I was nominated for Thunderbolt and Lightfoot,
I was pulling into my parents' house to pick them up
with my limo, and very excited and anxious
about the whole thing.
And my dad calls me aside and says, Jeff, let me talk to you.
I have something to ask you.
And I said, oh, what, Dad?
And he said, I have been offered a car.
If you allow us to arrive at the ceremonies
in this car, our whole family, I'll get to keep the car.
And I said, well, that's a little strange, dad.
This is a big night for me.
But, you know, OK, I guess.
He says, well, come on.
Let me show you the car.
And I come out.
And it's a Subaru, you know, a Subaru?
Yeah.
It's about the size of this coffee cup.
Right.
And I said, Dad, we're going to look like clowns in the circus,
coming out of that little car!
And he says, please, I don't ask you for much.
This is something at least you could do for me.
I said, all right, I'll do it, in one condition,
if you allow me to video the entire proceedings.
And he said, OK.
So, somewhere in my garage, I have a tape.
Oh, I was hoping you'd say you have it with you today.
No, I don't.
But it's a long monologue of my mother's, saying--
I can't say the words.
I can't quite tell you.
But she says, please, I beg of you, don't be a-holes out here
in front of Army Archer and everything.
And it's a wonderful monologue.
And actually, it turned out to be a great evening.
I interviewed Army as he's sitting there, interviewing me.
And I said, what do you feel?
How do you feel?
Oh, that's great to show up with a camera when they're--
So it was fun.
Now, so, well, she should have thought about that,
don't look like a-holes before you got in the Subaru
because you're--
Yes, exactly!
How many of you were there in that?
Those are small cars!
There was like, six, I think.
Six?
Six, six of us.
We did look exactly like clowns, you know?
Well, that sounds dodgy to me.
But it's all-- yeah.
The whole thing sounds dodgy.
Very dodgy.
We're working it in.
And how did they let you in the line?
It's only limos.
Were you, like, rolling down your window, we're the Lloyd's!
We're the Bridges!
Yeah, that's right, yeah.
Well, when you find that tape, will you bring it back?
Yes.
Oh god, that's hilarious.
So, you and Beau--
and you were great in The Fabulous Baker Brothers.
You were just fantastic.
You were fabulous!
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Now, did you both know that you wanted to act growing up?
Sort of.
I mean, I resisted it because, like most teenagers,
I think you kind of resist what your parents want you to do.
My father, unlike most actors, really encouraged his kids
to get into show biz.
He loved all aspects of it.
So he was really championing us.
I mean, I didn't have to really have too
much to do with the decision.
I was carried on at six months.
You what?
I was carried on at six months old.
I was-- my parents had me.
And they were visiting some friend,
who was shooting a picture.
And they needed a baby.
And my mom said, here, take him!
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That was my big break.
And how did you feel?
Were you excited about it?
[LAUGHS] Well, I was a very happy baby.
And the baby in the movie is supposed to cry.
Oh!
And my mother said, just pinch him!
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That's horrible!
Now, 30 years later, I'm in a movie with the same actress.
Jane Greer was this woman who was a great actress,
carrying me.
And we were in a movie 30 years later called Against All Odds.
And I was in a scene with her.
And I'm saying, I'm having a little--
Great movie.
Thank you.
I'm having a little trouble in this emotion.
Give me a little pinch.
It would help me.
Hilarious.
The ways, the secrets of acting, there's
all these little secrets.
I always wondered if they'd do that to babies
to get them to cry.
That's mean!
It is!
That's horrible.
Yeah, terrible.
All right, well, we're going to be back with more right
after this.
And did you get your underwear?
I'm wearing them.
You're wearing them right now?
Yes, right now.
Really?
Yes!
That's great.
They're comfortable, aren't they?
They're very nice.
Yeah, all right.
I'm going to put them in the stores.
Except the thong-- you could have--
a thong?
I thought you were a thong kind of guy.
I thought--
I am now!
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Now, it's really hard for me to think of anything else,
other than--
so, you have, this is--
I assume this is your first book of photography, right?
Or is it not--
Yeah, available to the public.
This is really based on smaller books
that I've given to the cast and crew of the different movies
I've done.
The book is called Pictures.
And these are amazing photographs.
And it's just from all the different sets.
I want to-- and the one of your parents in the front,
it's beautiful.
I think we have that in the control room.
And the book is dedicated to your mother,
who gave you away to a stranger and asked them to pinch you.
That's a beautiful picture.
And then there's-- these are just gorgeous!
What's the next picture that we have marked here?
They're all amazing--
Lauren Bacall.
Oh yeah, that's--
What is this story right here, this picture of Lauren Bacall?
Yeah, Lauren Bacall, wonderful actress, wonderful person.
We were doing a film together called The Mirror Has Two
Faces, directed by--
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Yeah, thank you, directed by Barbra Streisand,
who often gets a bad rap for being a perfectionist, and all
this.
But it's wonderful to have that kind of perfection
directed towards you.
And she's so concerned about, are you
feeling all right, and everything.
She's really very supportive.
And yet, she can be a taskmaster.
And that shot that we just showed there on the screen
is a shot of Lauren Bacall, who has been asked
by Barbra to repeat this line.
She's not quite getting the line reading that she wants.
And the line that Betty is supposed to be saying here
is, wha?
I'm serious, wha?
And Barbara's not quite getting the inflection right.
And he went on, I'm not exaggerating here,
about 60 to 70 times.
Wha?
And so, I said, I told Betty, I said,
let me see you do it for me.
Just do it for me and relax, Betty.
Let me hear it.
And then she came up.
And she says, wha?
And that's what we see.
Oh, that's hilarious.
Of course, the end of this story is
that, under Barbara's direction, Lauren Bacall was
nominated for an Academy Award.
Yeah, that's great.
That's amazing.
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All right, well, the book is filled with pictures
that are so beautiful.
It's called Pictures.
And it's in bookstores now.
And thank you so much, Jeff, for being here.
And will you go bowl with Jeff?
I would love to bowl.
All right, great.
We'll be right back with the world rock paper scissors
champion, right after this.
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