Jeff Bridges, a major part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its start, has said that making Iron Man”was a wonderful experience, but it drove him “absolutely crazy” when Marvel threw out the script for the movie on the first day of filming.
Jeff Bridges starred as Obadiah Stane in the 2008 Jon Favreau film, Iron Man. This was the launching point for the MCU, which is now a dominant force in the film industry. Marvel was later bought by Disney, making it an even greater contender in the entertainment world.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Jeff Bridges spoke about his time working on Iron Man. He said that “it was Marvel’s first adventure into making movies. It was so lucky to have Jon on there and [Robert] Downey, because both of them are terrific improvisers, and we spent a couple of weeks working on the script and rehearsing together, because we didn’t like the original script and we thought, ‘Oh yeah, we fixed this, fixed that.'”
“Then came the first day of shooting, and Marvel kind of threw out our script that we had been working on, said, ‘No, that’s no good. It’s got to be this and that. And so there was a lot of confusion about what our script was, what we were gonna say. We’d spend hours in one of our trailers going over lines and exploring how we were going to do it.”
Bridges also said that Favreau had reached out to fellow screenwriters to get their advice on the script.
Favreau reached out to screenwriting friends to get their advice on the script, Bridges said.
“It drove me absolutely crazy until I made a slight adjustment in my brain that was, ‘Jeff, just relax. You’re making a $200 million student film. Just relax and have fun. And that kind of did the trick because here I get to play with these two incredible artists and just jam, and that’s what we ended up doing.”
Bridges called Iron Man the “best Marvel movie.”
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Zainah Yousef
Zainah Yousef is the author of The Fallen Age Saga and specializes in gaming, social media advice, and reviews. She's been writing all her life and she probably won't stop anytime soon.
