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 We asked the actor whether he believed Obadiah’s motives in the film come from resentment against Iron Man’s true identity, Tony Stark. “There was kind of a competition,” Bridges acknowledges, “It was a complicated relationship, I think. One of the things I do sometimes to prepare for a role and I did it in this one is write a history of my character. And I just let it flow out and I don’t think about it too much. And what came out is that they had a kind of father-son or even uncle-nephew relationship.” “What I had in my mind was that Obadiah sort of raised him as a surrogate father, probably got him laid the first time, taught him how to drive, took him out on adventures with him,” he adds, “His father was too busy and would assign Obadiah to do that for his son, so they had a very close, close relationship. But there was also a lot of jealousy, too, there.” Also starring alongside the venerated actor is Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, and Terrence Howard. We asked Bridges how much he believed the casting played an essential role in getting Iron Man to work under the direction of Jon Favreau. “Oh, yeah. That’s a huge part,” he replies, “I might have met him before, I don’t think so. But that’s a huge part, the casting is 95% of the whole thing. Who are the guys that you’re playing with? That was major. He held the whole thing. He was such a great captain and being an actor himself, as well as a writer and a director, he knew how actors work and how they approach the work in different ways. And he respected everybody’s approach and did his best to give them what they needed.” “And the fact that he was an actor, there were days that while we had the story in place, we would often show up for the day’s work and not know what we were going to say,” Jeff continues, “It just wasn’t figured out yet.” Jeff also spoke of some of the unique methods Jon Favreau used to get great performances from him and the rest of the cast. “We would meet in Jon’s trailer and we would do improvisations and played and threw in different characters,” Bridges recalls, “He would be Iron Man or Iron Monger. It was play, like you were a kid. We’d have a tape recorder and turn it on and hone it down and in the next few hours, that’s what we would be saying, that kind of thing.” “So that’s Jon creating this relaxed, comfortable atmosphere for that to go down, because if you had somebody who was tighter or didn’t have that skill, you wouldn’t get this movie,” Bridges ... |
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