In an interview posted today on io9.com, Jeff Bridges--the actor who portrayed the classic villain Iron Monger--expressed his disappointment in being killed off in the first Iron Man film. "In the script of Iron Man [Iron Monger] falls into this big pit of whatever it is, some kind of acid or something, in his costume. They pull it up in the big crane and they open up his costume and he's gone." While Bridges wanted to film this scene true to the script, other filmmakers wanted to end the character. "And when we were shooting that film they said, "No we're not going to do that. We're just going to have you go." And I said, 'Oh shit, I was kind of disappointed.' Because I was thinking [I would] be in the sequels. But they said it's a comic book maybe the Iron Monger will come back. I said 'Yeah, right.'"
Bridges then went on to once again talk about the rather messy filmmaking process. "It was the wildest adventure. And I think it's the best of all those superhero movies. Of course you have Jon Favreau at the helm, he's amazing. He's a wonderful actor and really into improvisation. And then we had [Robert] Downey [Jr.] who is a master at improvisation, because that was certainly a needed talent on that movie. Because of the script. The script, you'd think with a $200 million dollar movie, they'd have a script that everybody liked. But nobody including the financiers, the Marvel people, nobody liked the script. So we would come to work and we would meet in my trailer and figure out what the days work was going to be. What we were going to say, for hours. Playing each others parts, putting it on, 'Okay, now let's try this. Hey, I know a writer, I'm going to call this guy — he may have a good idea.'"
As wish-washy as that development might have been, he still considers the movie a proud period in his life. When asked if it was a stressful time, Bridges replied "Well it was very stressful because I like to be prepared. Until I made a little tiny adjustment in my brain and that was, 'Jeff now come on, just relax. What you're doing [is], you're making a $200 million dollar student film. Just relax and have fun and play.' And from then on, we just had fun and it was wonderful."
To see what Jeff has to say about his latest movie, Seventh Son, hit the source link below!