Jeff Bridges Thought His De-Aged Kevin Flynn in TRON: LEGACY Looked More Like Bill Maher

Jeff Bridges is once again reprising his role in Disney’s upcoming TRON: Ares movie, and while we don’t know how exactly he fits into the story, that actor recently said that the film’s star Jared Leto is “wonderful to work with.”

While a guest on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, it was brought up how there’s “no one more scanned in the metaverse more than Jeff Bridges,” and Bridges was asked if that “scares him a little bit” in this age of AI.

It’s here that Bridges talks about TRON: Legacy, and while his experience with the film was mostly a good and positive one, there was one aspect of the film that he “wasn’t particularly fond” of how it turned out.

Bridges said: “I got scanned and in the computer for when we did Tron 2, Legacy, and I wasn’t particularly fond of that recreation of myself. I thought I looked more like Bill Maher than myself.”

Yeah, the de-aging CGI that was done for the film isn’t as good as what could be done now, but, at the time, in 2009, I remember audiences being blown away by it. It was the first time we’d ever really seen anything like that done in a movie before, so it was a big deal.

The technology for de-aging actors had to start somewhere, and it really started with Jeff Bridges. Even though he didn’t like the outcome and he thought he looked like Bill Maher, it was still pretty cool.