Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

Thank you so much for clicking once again this week.

And boy, do we have a good one, a Hollywood legend.

The dude himself, Jeff Bridges.

He and I got together here in New York, the Oscar-winning actor talking about his latest film,

Bad Times, at the El Royale. Very, very cool movie if you haven't seen it already.

We also went through some of his most iconic roles, including, of course,

The Dude in the cult classic, The Big Lebowski.

Despite all he's done in his career, that role may end up defining him.

I ask him if he's okay with that.

I was also surprised to learn, Jeff doesn't necessarily share the dude's level of chill.

It's there. There are a lot of aspects as you'll hear of The Dude in Jeff Bridges,

especially a young Jeff Bridges, he says.

But he still gets nervous, he says.

For interviews, he gets nervous on the set, even after nearly 60 years in the business.

Seven Oscar nominations, a win, and being revered across Hollywood,

and being the guy on almost every project he's in.

In fact, as we talk about in the interview, John Hamm and some of the other actors in El Royale

signed on when they heard that Jeff Bridges was in it.

That's the power of The Dude.

We also talk about his childhood growing up in show business in his first movie at like 10

months old, something like that, working alongside his brother Bo, his father, of course,

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