Legendary actors John Lithgow and Jeff Bridges visit WIRED to field their most searched questions on Google. Where did John Lithgow grow up? What was Jeff Bridges’ first movie? Does Jeff Bridges play guitar? When did John Lithgow start acting? What does Jeff Bridges love most about 'The Big Lebowski?' Answers to these questions and plenty more await on the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.The second season of FXs The Old Man premieres with two episodes on Thursday, September 12 at 10pm ET/PT on FX, streaming the next day on Hulu.Director: Jackie PhillipsDirector of Photography: AJ YoungEditor: Matthew ColbyTalent: Jeff Bridges; John LithgowLine Producer: Joseph BuscemiAssociate Producer: Paul GulyasProduction Manager: Peter BrunetteProduction Coordinator: Rhyan LarkTalent Booker: Mica MedoffCamera Operator: Lucas VilicichSound Mixer: Gray Thomas-SowersProduction Assistant: Lauren Boucher; Shanti Cuizon-BurdenPost Production Supervisor: Christian OlguinPost Production Coordinator: Ian BryantSupervising Editor: Doug LarsenAssistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
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00:00I'm John Lithgow and this is my friend Jeff Bridges.
00:03We're doing the Wired autocomplete shenanigans.
00:10I'm afraid to Google myself.
00:12I don't want to see that.
00:14I mean, I want to see that, but I don't want to see that.
00:19Oh, here we go.
00:21Oh, this is great.
00:22What was Jeff Bridges' first movie?
00:25Oh, The Company She Keeps.
00:28Six months old.
00:30Oh, six months old?
00:31Six months old.
00:32I'll tell you the story.
00:33I probably already did, but you forgot because you're an old man.
00:36Yeah, I'm an old man.
00:37Yeah, hit me again.
00:39What do Jeff Bridges' grandchildren call him?
00:43Oh, I'll say I wanted them to call me dude-pa.
00:47Dude-pa.
00:48But they've shortened it now to just doody.
00:50I hope it's howdy-doody and not dog-doody that you're referring to.
00:54But you know they're kids.
00:55You know which one they're referring to.
00:57What did Jeff Bridges win an Oscar for?
01:01That's a no-brainer.
01:02Crazy Heart.
01:04I'm awfully glad you didn't forget that.
01:06Oh, I could have easily.
01:07You would have been an old man.
01:08What camera does Jeff Bridges use?
01:12Wide locks.
01:13There it is.
01:13And I'm going to do a little pitching now.
01:16My wife Susan and I are creating a new Wide Locks because the old factory's burned down.
01:22Yeah, and they take incredible pictures, three or four of which
01:27feature me as the old man's friend, John.
01:30Sue, my wife, gave me one as a first anniversary present.
01:35And that's about the only one I use.
01:36And that was 47 years ago?
01:38Yeah, isn't that something?
01:40Marriage is a good thing.
01:41Wow.
01:43Nicely done.
01:44What have I done?
01:45Okay, let's see how you do.
01:47All right.
01:48Okay, this'll be fun.
01:50Where did John Liske grow up?
01:54Ah, well, I'm still growing up.
01:56I'm still trying to make it to maturity.
01:58But I was born in Rochester, New York.
02:01By age two, I was living in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
02:04By sixth grade, I was living in, oh my god, Stockbridge, Massachusetts,
02:10Waterville, Ohio, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, Akron, Ohio.
02:13Man, you moved around a lot.
02:15We moved around a lot.
02:16I finished high school in Princeton, New Jersey.
02:19Who is John Liske in Shrek?
02:23Ah, Lord Farquad.
02:26People used to ask me, is there any part you couldn't play?
02:30I said, well, I'll never play anyone short.
02:33And then along came Lord Farquad.
02:36There you go.
02:37See, I said, what season of Dexter is John Liske in?
02:45In.
02:46Season.
02:46Out.
02:47For.
02:48Recognized the world around as the scariest, mainly because of the Trinity Killer.
02:55That was me.
02:56But I'm not really like that.
02:59I love playing villains.
03:00You know, I'm a well-known nice guy, which makes it all the better to play villains.
03:06I'm the last person you'd suspect.
03:09John Liske in Footloose.
03:13Was John Liske in Footloose?
03:15I was in the original Footloose.
03:18In the remake, I was played by Dennis Quaid, where my part was.
03:23But yes, the answer is yes.
03:25Footloose, 40 years old this year.
03:29And would you please stand on the box and do a little Footloosing?
03:34Footloose, put on your Sunday shoes, or whatever it is.
03:39Put on the fan on my knees.
03:43I've lost both the words and the steps.
03:45No, I don't think so.
03:46I've lost a few steps.
03:48Kevin Bacon would have done much better than I.
03:51This goes on and on.
03:52I like being the on interlocking.
03:55You like this guy.
03:56Does Jeff Bridges play guitar in Crazy Heart?
04:00Yeah, I do.
04:02Always in his trailer.
04:04Let's try.
04:05Okay.
04:05Does Jeff Bridges surf?
04:09I do.
04:10Do you?
04:10I haven't in the last 10 years.
04:12You never told me that you're surfing in his trailer.
04:15Oh, yeah.
04:16Let's have another one.
04:18Does Jeff Bridges have tattoos?
04:22I'll never tell.
04:24You've decided to, you're pleading the fifth.
04:26Actually, beneath my hair, John.
04:29No.
04:30Yes, I have sort of doll hair tattooed all over my head.
04:35Every once in a while, I shave my head and I'm just.
04:38And you have doll hair under that?
04:39I have doll, yeah, it's tattooed on my hair, very tight curls.
04:43Wow.
04:44Oh, does Jeff Bridges have dogs?
04:48I do, Monty.
04:50He's a Cavapoo, half Cavalier, King Charles, and half Poodle.
04:55Well, that's it for me.
04:56How about another one?
04:58Look at the pile they got for us, John.
05:00But this is fun.
05:01I'm having.
05:02Yeah, yeah, well, we get to hang.
05:03I thought I would freeze up.
05:05Yeah, yeah.
05:06Prepare to freeze, John.
05:07Okay.
05:07Because this is a toughie.
05:09I want to be stumped.
05:11When did John Lithgow start acting?
05:16My first role was when I was two years old.
05:21I played my father's son in Ibsen's Doll's House.
05:28I was just two.
05:29My older sister was also in the play.
05:32I don't remember a thing about it, but I'm told I was very good.
05:37And that apparently was the beginning of my career.
05:40There you go.
05:41Okay, is John Lithgow nice?
05:46Oh, is John Lithgow nice?
05:48That's not for me to say, of course.
05:52That subject comes up a lot because people say I'm very nice, but it's only because I love.
05:58It's an act.
05:59Come on.
06:00Of course, it's an act.
06:02But I actually, in all reality, I love all the people I work with.
06:05And I see our business as we're all in this together.
06:11Amen, amen.
06:12And I think if you live by those watchwords, people think you're nice.
06:15There you go.
06:16It's very easy to fool.
06:17That's true.
06:17That's a good answer.
06:19How is John Lithgow related to Brad Pitt?
06:27Not remotely.
06:28I will tell you my history with him, though.
06:30It's quite a beautiful thing.
06:32I had friends whose daughter had a very, very serious illness that required her to be in
06:38the hospital at UCLA for a couple of months.
06:42And she learned that Brad came in once a week to the same ward to have
06:49a wrist ailment taken care of.
06:51And she wrote me asking him, who I did not know at all, if he would just come and say
06:58hi to her one day.
06:59And so I wrote Brad Pitt a letter and told him that circumstance.
07:05Never heard back from him.
07:07I heard back from her.
07:09The next week, he had gone in there to her ward room with all her girlfriends, and he'd
07:15spent two hours with those kids.
07:18You know, photographs, talk, just talk, making her feel better.
07:22He sounds nice.
07:24He sounds real nice.
07:25Who does John Lithgow play in The Crown?
07:31I played Winston Churchill in The Crown.
07:34And this gives me the opportunity to give you my very favorite Winston Churchill quote.
07:39Everybody knows the familiar ones.
07:41A woman came up to him at a big, fancy reception and pointed out to him that his fly buttons
07:48were undone.
07:50And Churchill's response was, it's not a problem.
07:55A dead bird never leaves its nest.
08:01And that's it for you, John, this round.
08:03OK.
08:04All right.
08:06Actually, I could have used that line when I snipped the thread off my crotch.
08:11Yeah, it's my turn.
08:12I like this part better.
08:13OK.
08:14Jeff Bridges, Jeff Bridges' eyes.
08:17What does that mean?
08:20All right.
08:21I think you've just answered the question.
08:23That's it.
08:23That's what they wanted to see.
08:25Do it for the camera.
08:27That's the dude's eyes.
08:28Mom would call this, make sweet eyes, and I'd do this.
08:31OK.
08:31But we have to move on to an actual question.
08:34Here we go.
08:35Jeff Bridges, the Big Lebowski.
08:38What's supposed to happen here?
08:39There's no question.
08:40It's not a question.
08:40It's not a question.
08:41Everybody knows you're the Big Lebowski.
08:43Yeah, the dude, man.
08:44I don't know what to say about that.
08:46OK, be the dude.
08:47Is the dude the thing that people most recognize you for?
08:51Yes, absolutely.
08:52They'll throw out some different, you know, quotes from the show.
08:57You know, the dude abides, you know.
09:00Exactly.
09:01Shut the fuck up, Donnie.
09:02And one more.
09:06One more.
09:06That's just like your opinion, man.
09:10OK, Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water?
09:13David McKenzie, great director.
09:15Taylor Sheridan, wonderful script.
09:17OK, well, let me ask you this.
09:19Which do you prefer?
09:20Hell or High Water?
09:23They both have qualities that I enjoy.
09:27OK, tell me about the Jeff Bridges Band.
09:30The Jeff Bridges Band is called The Abiders.
09:36We had a wonderful time.
09:38I had my Beatle moment playing the Lebowski Fest to a sea of dudes.
09:47Oh, God.
09:48And I was like, oh, you know, it was so wonderful.
09:52Where did that take place?
09:53I can't remember.
09:53Lebowski Festival?
09:55Yeah, they last for days.
09:57And it's pretty wild.
09:58You have unleashed a monster.
10:00And, you know, people like to dress up.
10:02You got bowling pins and you got mods and dudes.
10:05Do people show up as Torturo or Goodwin?
10:07Oh, yeah.
10:08Oh, that's very common.
10:10I want to be at one of these.
10:11Well, we'll go together.
10:13What would you dress up as?
10:14Julianne Moore.
10:15Yes, the Viking.
10:19Absolutely.
10:19OK, Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow.
10:23Tell me what you think of John Lithgow.
10:25John Lithgow is very nice.
10:30He's a charming man.
10:33So well-educated, a lovely actor.
10:37And he's fun.
10:39Oh, good.
10:43I love you, man.
10:45I love you, dude.
10:49You are the greatest.
10:52You know, lightning round.
10:54Quick, John Lithgow, just say it quick.
10:55Just one word.
10:57Oh, my God.
10:59I'm gorgeous.
11:01John Lithgow, voice of Yoda.
11:04Oh, impatient is he.
11:07And next.
11:08John the Old Man.
11:09John the Old Man.
11:11Oh, my God, I've forgotten all my lines.
11:13Very good.
11:15John Lithgow, kids books.
11:17Oh, oh, yes.
11:20Never play music right next to the zoo.
11:23John Lithgow, storyline.
11:26Google it.
11:26Oh, children, remember whatever you may do.
11:30Never play music right next to the zoo.
11:33They'll burst from their cages, each beast and each bird.
11:37Desperate to play all the music they've heard.
11:40The lions and the elephants, the bears and the raccoons.
11:44We'll steal away the trumpets, the flutes and bassoons.
11:47Replace the musicians and chase them away.
11:50Then they'll sit in the band shell and play.
11:54Yeah.
11:56What an ending.