Conan Triggers Jeff Bridges | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

my name is Jeff Bridges and I. feel well very open very um a lot of. love man lot of love feelings are. surfacing. now about. being Conan O'Brien's friend and being. here with him actually good Lord this is. the most. thoughtful and and and and and also uh. beautiful you're a lovely you're a.

lovely guy thank you man I feel the same. about you I mean I can't remember. uh all the times that we've encountered. each other over I've come your house i'. be about four five six seven dozen times. I don't know but I've come to your house. plenty of times at night when you're. sleeping you that's me yeah and I always. take I always take a little something. when I. go but you leave a little something too. I leave a little something too uh so I.

you know it's so funny because I mean. you've done so much incredible work and. I've also thought about how I just have. this bond with your family because when. I was a kid they would show reruns a lot. and my brothers and I there was one. thing that we watched in the summer and. it. was we would watch SE hunt and uh of. course your dad the great Lloyd Bridges. was the star of Sea Hunt and so I. remembered when you first came on the. scene and I'd see you in movies and.

people I would think of you as Lloyd. Bridges that's Lloyd Bridge's son. because he was on Sea Hunt and that's. the show we I would watch with my. brother Neil and Luke we thought that. was the coolest show in the world and of. course we were watching it long after it. had been on we're watching it in the 70s. oh oh right no the it was the late of. the early 60s now you've triggered a. story can I tell that's what I do I. trigger people you've triggered me. okay se you mentioned Sea Hunt now this. uh this is also a plug for a fell named.

Richard Peterson okay uh and people can. Google uh Richard Peterson's first movie. Big City dick it's called oh big city. dick that's the official title and I met. this fell maybe. uh 30 30 years ago in Seattle I'm. getting dressed to go down and do uh. this movie America heart and uh I hear.

this outside my window I look out there. and there's this ball kind of heavy set. guy in a tight madress sport coat and. it's like I know I know I go down there. uh I forget all about the guy and he. comes up to me he goes oh Lloyd Bridges. son son of. seun and say you got me and then I. realized what he was playing on his. trumpet was.

Sea Hunt music yeah and he comes up to. me and he says these are the cues I need. the other qes these cues and I said what. is this he says the cues from seah hun. you know every time they go he saw. it yeah yeah yeah he would so this fell. Richard Peterson is a. savant and his his subject SE. Hunt No No Yeah all all ziv music and. also what's crazy is his connection with.

you as as mine was just like like early. early on was through your dad and then. you've gone on to have this insane. career but doesn't matter what you do to. this guy you'll always the connection. will always be SE son of seah. hunt son of seah hunt but now years. later I'm about 20 years later I'm doing. a Sea Biscuit in Paden I have a big. Suite have a piano in the room and these.

guys come over and say do you know. Richard Peterson we're some documentary. film uh directors the three of us have. gotten together I said oh yeah I tell. him this story and they said now. Richard's. downstairs can he come up I said oh. wonderful I've always wanted because. he's really a piano player I said we got. a piano and we get down there and we. start playing sea hunting. music you're playing the stings to an. early 60s television show.

andar as I'm walking him out the door. saying Richard you know are you into. jazz because it's kind of you know out. there music playing and they do like. fonus monk for. instance and he looks at. me I dig seah. hunt have you heard of Mozart was he on. Sea Hunt Sea Hunt so seea no it's wild. but you know I don't know I know that. you.

you're in the business uh you did. obviously some cameos on Sea Hunt with. your brother Bo and then I remember a. movie came out that to this I love this. movie Thunderbolt and light foot and my. my my have you you know this film and uh. it's Clint Eastwood it's you uh it's. George Kennedy you popped so much in. that. movie uh you must have been a young kid. at the time yeah I can't remember how. old I was I think it was the movie is.

1974 they probably shot it in 73 but. you're just such a great character well. it was it was um Chino's first movie. Michel Chino Michael Chino's first movie. he's the guy who directed Heaven's Gate. yep yep completely different. experience you know in Heaven's Gate we. would do up to 60. takes you know but you know we're here. we're show up and I'm not sure if I. really dug that approach because nobody. you know know going to take are you it.

you know but uh with Thunderbolt and. Lightfoot Clint always only liked to do. you know one take maybe two you know and. I was the kid who'd go up to chim say I. got well that's the boss and Clen would. say yeah give the kid give the kid one. more time yeah but I but uh that film is. very uh close to my heart because that's. the first film I did in Montana yeah.

and uh man that's I just came back from. Montana so I'm a little countryfied. right well there is uh I know a movie is. great when the loss of a character uh. upsets me on an emotional level uh or. the the or if a character's hurt it. upsets me because you know there's a lot. of violence there's a lot of things that. can happen in movies and television and. you just don't feel anything and George. Kennedy gives your character a beating. and it upset me cuz I was so invested in.

your character and I I thought that's a. good movie and that's a good that's. proof to me that the acting here is top. level when I'm upset I mean you see if. you if you just casually watch anything. you'll see people getting the. kicked out of them a million times. you're numb to it but I I I don't know I. felt a real loss there when your. character was was beaten like that it. just upset me still does I'm smiling.

because. I it's funny when I see movies that I'm. in they're like home movies you know I. remember so many different things about. it when I watch it and as you're telling. that story my mind went like very much. like the Richard Peterson story I just. shared with you that was perhaps too. long do you like uh longer uh and you. edit this right so just from you.

Jeff I assure you I assure you this is. all gold this is a great day for me I. love that you're here you can do no. wrong uh you're the dude you know I. think we have to acknowledge you are the. dude and you know what so crazy you came. on my show once and you were wearing. sandals jelly sandals and then you. revealed these are the same ones you. wore as the dude and I felt like I was. in Rome.

watching looking at like a religious. icon you know it was just crazy that you. had those and. yes not them these are my these are my. these are my hocas you guys are hip up. those are the dude's 2000 sandals oh. yeah the dude is the dude is evolved oh. man the dude evolves yeah the. dude so let me let me the dude that. should be the new one the dude evolves. the dude evolves there you go it's all. set up yeah your lowski too yeah and in.

this one he's got a he's pregnant with. Mod's got a baby on his way the stranger. set it up and one and the one difference. is his his Footwear it's still open toed. but it has more support orthopedic it's. Orthopedic that is right exact that's. really the only difference like it I. like that I uh you know I was going to. oh go ahead I he had that story yeah I. was going to tell the story so what that. triggered when you were talking about. the Thunderbolt in life but that scene. that you're talking about where I die in. the car with.

Clint I go up to Mike and I say. Mike yeah I've got an idea mine now I. can do this with my eye I don't know. where the camera you see oh see like. that I can hold a half blank pretty good. see so I said to him why don't we get a. dentist cuz I'm supposed to die of a a. brain hemorrhage brain hemorrhage you've. been beaten really badly and Clint.

thinks you're going to be okay yeah I. said let's get a dentist up here and. shoot me with Novae in the side of my. face and I'll go like that yeah yeah. yeah yeah and he said okay so we did. that and it worked. great and they. uh they lost the film what and we had to. do the whole thing again you know I love. being that who comes in and tells you. that you know the thing where you the. dentist has to come in uh that's.

unbelievable.