Jeff Bridges

Jon Favreau was the real appeal to me. A big fan of his from Swingers. And the combination of Jon doing this comic-book genre film seemed so intriguing to me, I wanted to hear his pitch. Then he told me that Robert was going to be Iron Man, and that made it all the more wonderfully odd. I thought, "Oh God, this could be really exciting and different." That's what got me to the part.^[1]

I always thought that [with] these big multimillion-dollar movies, that the special effects are so expensive that they would want to have all the dialogue and be very prepared that way, so that everything would go quicker," Bridges said, snapping his fingers for effect during an interview last week in New York. "But I found out that that's not the case with these movies. Often, the dialogue is kind of left as a last-minute thing, you know? That was tough, because you base your character on what is said about you and what you say, and if that's not solid, then who are you, what are you?... Often we would show up for work not knowing what we were going to say. We'd meet in Jon's trailer for a couple of hours and throw ideas around and improvise and put it on one of these little tape recorders. And that's what we said [in front of the camera]. ^[2]