Have you ever played a old arcade cabinet?! The shits addictive! It doesn’t matter what game- forget it- it has you- you’re gone! You belong to the machine now! They’d have to drag my ass onto set kicking and screaming - I would be fired so fast lmao. (I have lost so much of my life to the hypnotic power of dig dug)
Also I think it’s generally just really funny to have video games for the downtimes between filming a movie about video games- also playing it in costume is such an image. (How fucking tall is he? He’s the size of it—)
IIRC, during a fan expo with Bruce and Cindy, they were talking about how they had to go searching for Jeff between scenes and he was invariably on one of the machines trying to raise the high score (And usually succeeding). So they probably would drag you back kicking and screaming, but wouldn’t fire you for it lmao
aaa omg this is fantastic
(jeff bridges sneaking off to play games and beat the high score)
(I’M DOING IT TO GET IN CHARACTER MAN)
(is he a method actor or does every filmmaker just carefully cast him for characters who are Basically Him IRL)
