Sound bite: Jeff Bridges
Yeah, well a lot of that is in the script. One of the things that brought me to the project was Jessica Bendinger. The writer and the director and the fact that she herself was ranked 3rd in Connecticut in floor exercise for the whole state so she knew the world that she was talking about. I remember that before I read the script I heard that I was up for a part to play a coach and I thought “Oh, good, I can be, I’m a fan of Woodmans. My brother was coached by Woodmans at UCLA and the coach had a good way of looking at things, gave it a sorta spiritual sorta way. Kinda a metaphor for living life but this coach was nothing like that. Didn’t have that type of spiritual, didn’t have that spiritual kind of evolution at this time. Maybe at the end of the movie but not at this time he is all about winning, what is it going to take to win. Let’s do what it takes and give the judges what they want. That kind of thing.

Sound bite: Jeff Bridges
Well first of all, just talking about Missy, it is kinda a cumulative thing. A lot of actors don’t like to get to know the other actors they are working with or get to know them in character and have them call them by the character’s name. I’m of the opposite school. I like to get to know people so you can, I don’t know, for me personally I think I can get deeper with a person. Missy and I got to know each other pretty well. I got three daughters of my own so I had all that age and being girls and that was all working well so I think we got along great and she is a wonderful actress and she brings so much to the party you know.