First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
BEAU BRIDGESI’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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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that’s not the only place my friends come from.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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The SG-1 franchise has been so successful for the network, that they always want to keep it open, an option to do it again in some way, whether that’s a movie or a series, or whatever.
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But on the other hand I believe I’m a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
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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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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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We come in. We don’t know anybody or very few people that we work with, but the nature of the job pulls us into a sort of an intimate kind of relationship and communication and then they’re gone and it’s kind of melancholy.
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I was coming into a situation I didn’t really know much about, and now, after a couple of years, the character’s kind of mellowed and gotten comfortable working at the command center and very comfortable with his troops.
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I think that by now, in the very beginning when I first joined the show, General Landry was like a new kid in school.
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Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother’s instigation. So I owe him for that.
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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 also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers… I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I’ve been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.
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My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.
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