Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
BEAU BRIDGESI got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.
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I’ve done a number of these My Name is Earl shows. I play Earl’s father. It’s a half-hour comedy. And I’ll be doing some more of those.
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Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
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We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.
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You miss that guy but then suddenly you’re working with him again maybe somewhere.
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On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.
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And when I’ve been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that’s not the only place my friends come from.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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Some actors, and especially the younger actors, they come into the job with a lot of attention on how they behave and everything when they’re not working.
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I have a movie coming out that I did with Misha Barton, called Don’t Fade Away.
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I’ve always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans – the original Americans.
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I’ve always seen making movies as a bunch of little births and deaths.
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And I like music, too, I like playing music.
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I appeared several times on Atlantis while I was doing Stargate. And they’ve mentioned to me before that they’d like me do some, but right now I have nothing specific to report.
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Sometimes that can be unfortunate because the work call is pretty intense and the preparation for it.
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If your focus is there, then the actual doing of the job will be fun and enjoyable. But if you’re so involved in trying to be interesting and a character and everything when you’re not working, it can get in the way and people get goofed up.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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But when I’m done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it’s like a suit of clothes, put on something else.
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Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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Yeah, I’m very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I’ve worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they’re into, so I’m hoping that I will.
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The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go to Hawaii. There don’t seem to be any takers on that one!
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other’s houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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