Bridges talks Tron Legacy

Moviehole had the honour of catching up with the amiable Jeff Bridges today, and, as if you could blame us, we quizzed him a little on the upcoming “Tron” sequel.

“It was great”, Bridges says of next year’s “Tron Legacy”. “Getting back with my old buddy, Steven Lisberger, and Bruce Boxleitner. I guess the same thing appealed to me about the sequel that appealed to me about the original, which was this idea that there’s a kid aspect to what I do, pretending and all that stuff. I used to love to pretend when I was a kid, and here’s a movie where I get to play a guy who gets sucked inside of a computer – oh yeah! – and gets to use all the modern technology that’s available today. The same goes with the sequel, except that all the technology that we’re using in that makes the old one look like an old black and white TV show or something. Gosh, it’s amazing what they’ve got going on this. I can’t wait to see it all pasted together.’’

Bridges says the teaser trailer we saw at Comic Con for it a year or so back is only a taste of what’s to come. “It wasn’t as highly polished as the movie is going to be, but it gives you a little peak into what you might find.”

Bridges, who’ll next be starring in a remake of “True Grit”, says “It was challenging” stepping back into the role of Flynn, “in that I got a little taste of this new technology of acting in the volume and making movies without cameras. That was hard.”