today on larry king now a skill winner jeff bridges the dude opens up other know lester is career became typecast just before that i was the dude you know sort of go from the dude to the prez you know that's pretty cool that gives me a lesson in the art of zen holdings a love like zen in the art of archery you know before you even throw the ball the pins are down it's how your mind is set plus using if you're paying attention to your breath if you're going with this it really larry put in the words in the book colors aslan reason oh no go back you believe you know all next on larry king now. we're in a place of my boy well brooklyn where they used to travel up the hill wanted to

visit central park trump of course block the r.v. look for a little have a nice one anyway of the parking lot with one of my favorite people to tour for that the jet bridges academy award winning he stars in this summer's alright the day it opens this friday night he's opposite ryan reynolds are i b d stands for rest in peace police department right wrist the peace department rest in peace the part some people are calling it ripped. what do you make of this film i don't know what to make it is totally a crazy crazy crazy movie yeah sorry i like to make those a cage especially at summer time gives them some people to chortle is it fun to do oh yeah especially when you've got guys like ryan and mary louise parker and you know and kevin bacon to work with and it makes it all for the three d. is incredible yeah and all these axes scenes when you see it finished when you're.

worked at it you don't see all that but yeah i had the i haven't seen the three d. version and all but if we were yeah that's really pretty wild but no you don't know when you're making that you know you know get to expose this atomic both it was i guess what they call a graphic novel. now how do you see your role cushier the woman who you are is rather. the woman i have been receiving miller very very happy about my avatar people who write and i play dead cops i'm a i'm a martial from the eighteen hundreds and run from modern times and we both dead and where we're hunting down the dead people and they're going to be alive who are still pretending you know to be alive and normal people see us in different ways they don't see this as we actually look so people look at me and when i'm walking around the streets and they see bristol miller and kevin bacon is a wonderful fellow he's he's so he's so wonderful to work with

a great actor and also he's a musician so we got to you know if you play well yeah yeah we play or sing do a little bit of music and that's yeah closing song my old buddy t.-bone and i wrote that tune in for the for the movies and heard it again it better man better man enjoys singing yes we were o's as you know we would list and we talking to the person i was at and you always saying yes since i was a kid you know because i knew your dad and he never said your song oh no well he sung that i mean you know my dad he replaced the richard kiley on broadway and mandolin montra lloyd. here yeah right it was the first one after richard kiley he did that song yeah bylaw are going to dream me all that great score but i'm going on tour here in a couple of days with my band the abiders and my daughter jesse is opening for me while so that's going to be a lot of fun do you ever just want to be

a singer well you know when i was growing up. play music like that i thought that might be something i want to do but my dad. he loved showbiz so much and acting and he'd been one of all his kids to go in that and it was you know you see a little eighteen you know eight year old kid and see hot that's that's me you know he encourages older so i met if not into it should in florida and they shot solo silver springs you know your father well there's a great oh wasn't he a great interest as also the great tonic that oh very good oh very good oh you must say that charge i remember we were just came back from boston we made a movie there together called blown away and he played my uncle in that and when we were casting the part i went up to the. the director in the producers that i know a guy wonderful actor who looks a bit like me might be

a good guy to play my uncle i said. lloyd bridges even heard of him and he said oh your dad is great but he's really more of a comedian and more of a comedian i said what are you talking about medicine is what it was all the airplane movies are so you got to be careful you can develop as strong persona you know and that that minute it was a different career thing oh yeah we made him altering sea hunt you know for the cia everybody thought he was a skin diver. they carried in our pete in in the new one is that a lot based on the character you did it through good weather from the same period yeah and you know you talk about the baggage and with each each row and there's a bit of a rooster cogburn baggage for that but i kind of let that be that's ok i figure the best you know both from the same times and. it's fun to play cowboys oh you play someone that out you wouldn't delap that role or if you think about him what do you

think about when he would die that's outlandish yeah well you mentioned my father being a comedian and he's my father quite a bit you know him to his you his you maria and a lot of that is. kind of a combination of things you know you got your make up usually how you look you know i have you know have a long kind of the stash beard long hair and then of course the clothing and all of that so i mean as you get dressed in the morning it is i mean about that where you even have to think about it just starts to you know you start to just become the guy it's a kind of crazy feeling anthony quinn told me once that it doesn't matter whether it's a b. movie a movie or a low key movie while weston you give it all your best all the time oh yeah as you know that was more fun more fun that way it is this is some action movie def i'm going to be this you know i don't like to do that and i give it your you're shot each time you know makes it more fun more enjoyable you know how do you pick

a role what's the determining factor that kind of a mixture of things you know. probably the right number one it isn't the kind of movie that i'd like to see end of movies going to movies and i like those movies where. you know the filmmakers surprise you you know you're thinking this can go one way and it goes another way and i like that and then also you know the people you work with we were in a movie together we were in the same scene the contender oh rosario that was a good one part of that goes allen iverson i got to interview her and she saw a great point you are a great president i love to have character hood. in you look at the anchors on that girl. that's what you're into ankles that's what does it for you today women. that makes you way less creepy. when exactly was your day. eighteen hundred thirty a mobile used to call the law. marshall was pulled for rice and this is

considered a barry sheck sion name at the time got rice receive it right just call me royal we're back with jeff bridges who's stars in our ip day opening friday he also coauthored a book it's him and bernie glassman called the dude in the zen master what is that so i'm glancing through it looks it's just a conversation here he has basically a conversation bernie glassman who is the zen master who is in mass and he's a wonderful wonderful guy. he came to me once and he said. you've been friends for several years he said you know in the buddhist circles. your character in the big about how ski the dude is considered zen master i said what are you talking about is oh yes as you know the the movie is filled with you know koans you know these use in questions that you have to get experience you know to

to really answer them properly and i said i don't know if you talk about his church he says sure is look the coen brothers man. come on the me. so he says hey let's write a book about that i want to bring some of these you know zen ideas into modern day and so he has ok sure so we went up to my place in montana and we put down this book and how do you know bernie glassman met in that a dinner party. i said between rum doest you know who roamed us is you know be here now and bernie and you know we let's was struck up and that's and we just became we kind of hit it off right there had a great time definition what is it what is in very good. and what is and i do not know all of. it maybe that's it you know not knowing you know to be open

to or heard of my dear friend jackie gleason in the book right yeah oh yeah and our and our current well art carney is they see a bike and make this kind of a truncate the story a little bit when i'm doing the bow ski. and by the way the dude who you know loves bowling you never see his bowl in the movie shrek but we originally were supposed to do some bowling we had a bowling master come teach us. and i was wondering how how the dude my prepared to bowl you know you remember art carney when he would prepare you know he would pick up that water and he would you know he would you know prepare him self but there's a boy he addressed the you know it was to sign something you know and jackie gleason was in the paper you know. i told the guy this and he says and he hadn't assisted with and he started to laugh hysterically and i said what's going on he goes no no i get to you guys tell me what's going on anything and the bowling

master finally said well you know bowling is a lot like zen in the art of archery you know before you even throw the ball the pins are down it's how your mind is set you know with the cocking of the head which is very much like. norton you know right you know what that what so i said yes so what happened he says well i would get up there and i would. you know. you know. this isn't a big tournaments you know until all the guys on the bed would say. you know and i said well what happened how did you know what that meant that is it would literally take me sometimes five or six minutes before i could throw the ball and it was really a problem i went to a schrank and you know work it out you know fine i says so what he do now i says i just throw the ball you know look at him oh you know oh but mentored me and. was a great man you know all of you loved him oh man i used to watch him all of the time and i bet you have great stories as though you oh god million stories about tell

a lot of that was improvisation you know and he would he never you'd appreciate this he never rehearsed a scene but he had a guy built like him who did all the rehearsals and he would watch that he would watch the tape of it and so he would do all the movements so when you did a honeymooners. the first car he walked in the first time he saw jackie was on the set to the show life. and that one fresh felt that god would have when a cast that was so one hasn't responded you'd find that that you know like i asked you about earlier feinstein said it's called acting. he was a master the zen is the living in the present right yeah that's a good yeah there you go he was in this. my position is yeah i do my you know i give it my shot you know you awful philosophical i mean i sit i sit you know i meditate you know you do better. help me with that when you're meditating what are

you thinking. whatever i'm think whatever whatever's there you know i'm in the ideas to you know you know i mean the you know the kind of the technique is to just follow your breath you know you know just pay attention to hear your breathing is or go well what happens is your mind you know just like you know your salad very glands are built to salivate your mind's meant to have all kinds of thoughts and ideas so you sitting there you know paying attention to your breath and here comes the thought what i'm going to say we have larry king i wonder what he's going to wear i wonder because his suspenders are you know the back you're breathing you know and so you do it you do this so it's not about it's not a matter of but not you know stop thinking you know don't don't think whatever you do that you know because that's that's not again i'm not you can't can't i just kind of comes and you just go back and you try not to be so attached to your thinking you know because. i find that that's one of the challenging things in life

where you you know your mind thinks and you'll have a fun. and that thought will hook you you know and then you'll start to tell stories about it you know until you work yourself up you know and it's just your mind going on but if you're not if you're not you know realizing that it's your mind it's not really a serious concrete thing it can mimic you can cause you some suffering you were in new york when jeff bridges he stars in r.i.p. deal while one that opens friday don't go away. please take me very hard to take. to get on. that back with that her make her look.

cute. applause. i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough. stay with sob story. let's get this guy like you would smear that guy stead of working for the people most issues in the mainstream media are working for each other bribers vision of what. they did rather.

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as if. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. we're back with the great jeff bridges stars he isn't just a great act to sing a great performance great guy alrighty great family was a great guy to go up with you back home just lowell was away at this time to things like there's a sect you know he was such a physical guy that what he's doing he started to is body started to kind of he took it as a betrayal kind of he was kind of you know angry at the thing and he got you know the heart you know hard they want you don't oh my god that he was he did oh he

loved apt and loved show business you know and i can remember him in the days of sea hunt him sitting me on his bed there teaching me all of the basics and unbowed to understand it oh and bowed to but then i think the thing that i learned most about acting from him was just the joy in which he'd approach the thing you know i kind of get a similar hit with you actually i can really know that you enjoyed doing it we loved this love it and it's kind of a when you joyous it's contagious you know and that whenever my dad you probably felt it with my dad and you knew my dad all over there when he came in and you hung out with him you said oh yeah we're alive this is kind of fun you know what where we want to go here he lived you know man i like your mom. did you ever meet my mom oh she. she whether it was a mariner she passed away while she was a cared she also wrote a book i think the end of the title is. you caught me you

caught me kissing or something like that but she titled she wanted that the publishers refused was. but the life of an actor's wife cueing in screwing. and she was out and you always were a close family you know you're very close there was it fun to work with your brother oh god in baker boys oh that was it raymond and ob now how do you resist not going a poem a shelf life. going on the piano. i'm an ape over my wife man you are oh yeah yeah she's she's my my main leading lady you know it's amazing to have that kind of relationship where i can go out and and act with all these you know beautiful girls but. you know nobody beats my wife you know and the fact that she is open to that and knows i'll come back because we got such

a good thing we've been married what thirty six years an asset like that how you look at your career the one thing you did say about it is diversity right you have in able to they can typecast you i try to do that now because we were as we were talking before my father kind of struggled with that you know with c. hunt. people thought he was a skin diver which is a wonderful compliment but he got typecast and those are the kind of roles he kept getting offered so i took a kind of a cue from that and really want to about trying not to develop to strong a persona so you mentioned it and yet again the contender i love the thing just before that i was the dude you know sort of go from the dude to the press you know that's pretty cool i dug that i love the greats in the content the when you confront that pompous ass oh that they're scary a woman. that a man they got is going to be vice president. they're going to rest of that and you

order food for you. as well written so you have a very you have a favorite role. not really this kind of like your kids you know that oh corny thing actors. i really have such a good time doing each one that's usually you know the the freshest one in my mind you know the last one i made another one since i had i did one that will be coming out next year called the seventh son is that about i play a witch hunter from the from a in the in the dark ages you go around all the horror to write you know it was always that well you know iron man iron it made the bad guy that got to be bald and. you love all that right yes for too good had to be fun oh well there you are working with the masters you know the coen brothers they're the same right are you know they're not a no they don't really understand yet their movies but you know working with and

they're very. very cool you know there's not too much you know phonetic joking around or anything else very no it's very kind of straight they're not you know somber by anyone you want to work with you haven't like woody allen he would be wonderful to work with i mean you know all the all the wonderful you know great filmmakers and actors i'm i'm up for how do you explain in in the hollywood age the longevity of the marriage. well probably one thing is the example that my folks you know went through you know they they were married to the end you know they were they met at u.c.l.a. and fell in love and you know. lived to my father passed away were you know were married. and maybe it's you know maybe the kids have said this is before bed seems to you know pop into my mind the key is not getting a divorce. just going when that when you get that well wall when you think that

a wall to get through that well that's like this is a buddhist. kind of practice that i'm working on called lows on when those tough things happen those are really kind of gifts they're really opportunities to expand you know and to open your love and try to you know get more intimate with your spouse do it go to it yet that is still involved with ending childhood on growing very much. i'm involved with one of the organization called share our strength and then we have to have that list yet have a campaign called no kid hungry and the summertime is particularly important for kids who are struggling with hunger because they get most of their meals at school and when school's out you know so are the meals and the. texting program to let families who are struggling with hunger know where these meals are summer meals are being served and if you text food to eight seven seven eight seven seven

food takes food to eight seven seven eight seven seven you can find out where a meal site is in your area important we have some social media questions for you don mcgraw on instagram what was it like to work with your father and brother in sea hunt i mean i didn't work with bo in sea high but whatever i worked with my family it was just so great because well we're all coming from that same source my dad you know who was our teacher. so we had the same kind of style and i loved working with my dad in two films blown away and in boston and tucker. and tucker was so great because you know there's a certain aspect the acting is kind of like advance pretend you know when you're a kid you pretend and francis coppola has a lot of kid in him too and created a wonderful environment and uncle under-rated movie it was it was

a lot of fun but we played together you know it was wonderful holly modally last was there any competition with your brother in regard. it's your careers no no it's kind of like being on the same team or root always rooting for each other you know and bo you know right next to my dad he was my mentor he taught me all kinds of act and stuff and we worked together what's your what motivates you every day. i guess that just you know breathe and you know i don't i don't i don't think of. in terms that i want to. show up there you go you early roxanne on instagram what was it like what would it take for you to star in the big lebowski sequel oh just the coen brothers say hey you want why not equal but they don't want to do it i don't thing but you know there was there were a surprise in it so maybe they'll that they will one day could game of if you only knew was your favorite drink of choice the white russian is the dude string and it's a little too sweet for me i just got off the straight russian i'm just doing red

wine fayemi two favorite character named jack because you've been jack in the seven different movies yeah man well you had to put them up there but the one that popped in my mind i had such a great time on and i love the result of the movie was wonderful was fabulous baker boys but now and now i'm thinking of the terry gilliam movie we made here fisher king was drunk and had to that was a good one to really good movie a first kiss. kind of where were you living i was in westwood you know going to high school probably junior high one not high school no no no junior high you know brother name and yeah i think well the one that comes to mind there might have been a girl before you would please learn to spin the bottle and stuff back in those days but the didn't really count i think was maybe debbie olson that's daddy olson you know debbie rowe. and. jeff bridges all right t.v.

opens friday thanks for joining us see again i'm a king's things on twitter which to handle. i don't know what moment is my hand i don't think i have one to look it up. please take me very hard to take. to get on. that back with that hurts me here.

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