Beau Bridges

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A deeply personal midlife coming-of-age story starring alongside Beau Bridges.

I am thrilled to welcome to all the way from Minneapolis, Marisa Coughlan.

Hi.

Like, I just want this all to stop.

I don't want to do this.

But then we sent a letter to Beau Bridges, and we made an offer to Beau Bridges, and he said yes.

And then once that was in place, it was like...

Do you remember this? I don't.

So one was in the 100th episode with Beau Bridges.

Oh, I love that episode.

Where he's sitting in the truck.

That's not to be confused with Million Dollar Baby, the Hilary Swank Clint Eastwood flick.

No, this one starred Beau Bridges as our favorite doctor, Dr. Defoe.

And And yeah, he was the one who saw dollar signs and set the girls on their vaudeville tour.

Unfortunately, I can't find a place where it can be viewed right now.

Oh, yeah.

The scene where she is, Beau Bridges is trying to get her on tape.

Okay.

Now, is Beau Bridges animatronic Beau Bridges? Well, I mean, if we can get the real Beau Bridges, I mean, with all these dark rides, if we can get the original cast to.

Yeah.

Well, we got three.

There's the Chuck E.

Cheese.

And he was on The Loner.

This is a picture of Beau Bridges, who is actually the star of the first part of the only two-part series, two-part, sorry, series of episodes on The Loner.

And he played the title character in The Mourners for Johnny Sharp, which was a two-parter.

And he's only in the first part of that.

That was really sweet.

But, yeah, Beau Bridges does a really good job with his big scene here.

And don't they

mention Dr. Lee in this scene, too? Yeah, he

... you know, an up-and-comer for sure.

And then obviously I know Beau Bridges and Tony Goldwyn-

Yeah

... uh, playing the brothers here.

And, and it's got a couple of things going for it.

It's got...

Beau Bridges is great generally, but here he gets to kinda like play against type, and he's just so horrible, and he revels in his cruelty and his revenge.

So y- you're dealing with the horror of that, of his, him gloating, and then you're also dealing with the sort of the, the abstract horror of what's happening to, um, to Tony Goldwyn's body.

Largely, so.

Beau Bridges.

Oh man, Beau.

Beau, a man who I don't see enough.

The movie is directed by Martin Ritt.

It stars Sally Field, Ron Liebman, and Beau Bridges.

Now, before I go any further, I did just want to tell everyone, full disclosure, if this sounds familiar, I watched this movie as part of season one, which I know sounds confusing because season one was dedicated to all of the movies that had ever won an Oscar for best picture.

Norma Rae did not win.

The second issue is that she has a low tolerance for people thinking badly of her.

So when her co-workers start calling her a fink, which, believe me, in the 1970s was quite a slur, Norma Rae decides to give up her promotion and go back to her old job.

She becomes reacquainted with a childhood friend named Sonny, who's played by Beau Bridges.

He's very recently divorced and begins romancing Norma Rae.