In a recent interview, a Hollywood director recalled the time that famed actor Jeff Bridges gave him a scare by getting high on marijuana right before filming a crucial scene as the president of the United States in the 2000 film The Contender—a performance for which Bridges was later nominated for an Academy Award.
Speaking at an event at the Clinton Presidential Center about the American presidency, director Rod Lurie was recounting a story about filming a key speech by the actor, who just years earlier had played the iconic stoner The Dude in the movie The Big Lebowski.
“At the end, Jeff Bridges is going to give a huge speech, right? Big speech, hundreds of people,” Lurie said, explaining that the production company had rented out the Virginia Statehouse for the day as a stand in for the U.S. Capitol and hired a sea of extras to play lawmakers.
The problem: “Jeff is in his trailer, and he won’t come out.”
After sending an intern an another assistant to check on the actor, Lurie said, eventually he knocked on Bridges’s trailer door himself.
“The door opens, and I was blown away by this huge cloud of marijuana,” the director
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