Jeff Bridges, the actor who did not want to become famous

It is “The Dude” or “the Duke” in the French version. Meanwhile, The caricature of the Californian which flows it sweet in the cult film The Big LebowskI that the Coen. For example, brothers realized in 1998. Consequently, Long beard. Meanwhile, dubious hygiene hair and creamy bathrobe, the nonchalant guy is embarked in spite of himself in a kidnapping case where various atypical characters intersect. Similarly, They are embodied by John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro and Julianne Moore. Nevertheless, The actor Jeff Bridges is almost fifty when he accepts this role which makes him jeff bridges, actor who did access the celebrity … Consequently, which he nevertheless tried to flee all his life.

Jeff Bridges is an icon revealed late that Arte’s fascinating documentary, first proposed on the Arte.TV platform before being broadcast in linear this Sunday, July 20, tries to dissect. Therefore, In the cinema then in recent years in the series The Old Mansuch talent could not remain forever in. the shadows. Since childhood, Jeff Bridges has suffered from too heavy weight to wear. The incredible artistic pedigree of his family, to start.

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Artist in the soul

His parents Dorothy and Lloyd Bridges are both actors, like her brother Beau Bridges. All encourage him to make a career at the cinema. He is only six months old when he spends for the first time in front of the camera. In The love thief (1951) by John Cromwell in which his big jeff bridges, actor who did brother plays. As a child, he cried and supported the mocking look of his comrades very badly. He has a long time this anxiety that he tries to drown in drug use. “Sometimes growing. it hurts”declares his father to him in one of the dialogues of the series The Loner where they gave themselves the reply.

If he does not be enthusiastic about becoming an actor, Jeff Bridges is still an artist at heart. He only prefers to devote himself to music, sculpture and painting. Yet cinema continues it, tirelessly. The roles, often second, continue to present themselves. The last session De Peter Bogdanovich (1971), The duckler where he faces Clint Eastwood (1974). It impresses in Starman Directed by John Carpenter in 1984, then in Primary state De Peter Weir, in 1993. At each award ceremony, it is like relieved not to prevail. Until 2009, when he received the jeff bridges, actor who did Oscar for his role as an alcoholic singer in Crazy Heart. « I will lose my underestimated actor status »he quips.

In reality, he has a childish relationship with the profession. His game is so fair that man fades behind the role. It does not run after glory, but rather leads an existential quest. Like Lebowski, he is the antithesis of the frantic American dream. A hero without heroism, sincere, who likes to take his time. The feature film is a commercial failure when it was released. But it is because the public recognizes themselves over time in the character’s philosophy that the Coen brothers have. signed a cult work a posteriori.