Jeff Bridges Talks Tron Legacy

Last June MTV News got themselves a set-pass on the Tron Legacy set and asked Jeff Bridges some questions about the production. Due to various embargoes and stuff, the interviews have only now surfaced on the net.

Up first, MTV asked Bridges if his character in Tron – Flynn, has changed much since the first movie?

He replied…

It’s certainly a different deal. We made “Tron,” there was no Internet, man. No cell phones. No laptops or any of that stuff. So it’s a completely different world that we’re showing up in here and the look of the film, it certainly benefits from that.

Then, what’s it like going back to the character?

It seems like we had a long weekend basically because [Steven] Lisberger, who directed the first one is very involved in this one, which is great — having the source of the material still engaged. I think it gave us all a lot of pressures because he’s such a wild cat but it’s also kind of grounded in that first movie that was so unique and everything. I heard that years before it came out I heard, “Oh, they’re gonna do a “Tron 2″ and I couldn’t believe. I said, “You’re kidding me?” Nothing happened and finally this came about and I was so pleased and we did kind of a, “Hey, this is not that strange.”

And lastly, (there were more questions but I’m just focusing on the three I found most interesting…) what was your reason for reprising your role?

Well I got a pitch from Joe, who by the way, this is his first film. Can you imagine? I don’t know if it’s the most expensive ever made but it’s right up there. To have a first time guy. Got to give Disney credit for taking that risk. They were smart because he’s such a calm, can do guy. He’s gonna pull this off. He made this wonderful pitch on the story, where it was going, and that was intriguing to me, and he showed me his commercial reel. He’s out of commercials, and I saw some of the technology that he had available to him that he could use. And then it was basically the same reason that I did the first one. The first one was cutting edge technology at that time and this one certainly is for this time. And it’s a whole different way of making movies I hadn’t experienced. A little bit in “Iron Man,” but nothing like this.

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