Jeff Bridges wasn’t too massive a fan of his digitally altered look in 2010’s Tron: Legacy.
Talking on a recent episode of Josh Horowitz’s Pleased Unhappy Confused podcast, The Previous Man actor delved into previous initiatives like Iron Man and The Huge Lebowski. Because the dialog turned to the 1982 cyberpunk sci-fi pic and modern-day discussions of the function of synthetic intelligence in movie, Bridges stated the Joseph Kosinski sequel featured a nonetheless “new” de-aging course of by way of pc scanning — one he didn’t essentially like.
“I wasn’t significantly keen on that recreation of myself,” he recalled, chuckling. “I believed I regarded extra like Bill Maher than myself.”
Trying again at Tron, the veteran actor defined that it was an idea that was “so weird” on the time, with the movie utilizing strategies like black-and-white pictures to create its futuristic, neon digital world.
“It was shot in 70 millimeter black-and-white, hand-tinted by a bunch of girls in Korea, I feel,” he stated. “We had black duvetyne, it was this set with white adhesive tape on the factor. Everyone was inspired to put on colourful garments ’trigger … our fits had been all black, however you’d go exterior after a day’s work of being in that black-and-white environment and — growth! — coloration would simply run into you.”
With Tron: Ares, starring Jared Leto and slated for launch Oct. 10, 2025, Bridges will reprise his role as proficient online game creator Kevin Flynn in a short cameo. The Academy Award winner will return to the Disney-led universe because the follow-up traces Leto’s subtle program, Ares, despatched from the digital world into the actual world on a harmful mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with AI beings. Rounding out the solid are Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan and Gillian Anderson.
