Jeff Bridges met his wife Sue on a Montana film set in his 20s — she rejected him the first time he asked her out. Decades later, the makeup man mailed him a photograph capturing that exact first conversation, which Bridges now carries as his most prized possession.
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In one of the episode's most memorable stretches, Jeff Bridges describes the moment he met Sue: sitting in a hot tub on a Montana film set with Harry Dean Stanton and Sam Waterston, he spotted a gorgeous woman with a broken nose and two black eyes across the water. Mustering his nerve, he asked her out — she said no. But fate intervened at the wrap party, they danced, and the rest is 49 years of history. What makes the story extraordinary is what Bridges produces from his satchel: a photograph sent to him decades later by the film's makeup artist, capturing the precise moment he first spoke to Sue. He shows it to Theo, pointing to the look on his own face — 'totally cold-cocked.' [1] — Jeff Bridges "Jeff Bridges met his wife Sue on a Montana film set in his 20s — she rejected him the first time he asked her out. Decades later, the makeu…" 03:24
Jeff Bridges and his wife Sue have been married for 49 years, meeting on the set of the 1974 film Rancho Deluxe in Montana.
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