Is there a single extra iconic scene from 1998’s The Massive Lebowski than the Gutterballs dream sequence? Whereas the movie is known for its hilariously quotable traces, many followers are a fan of a dialogue-free second when The Dude (Bridges) is drugged by Jackie Treehorn and imagines he and Maude Lebowski (Julianne Moore) are the celebrities of a Busby Berkeley-style grownup movie set at an otherworldly bowling alley full with dancers sporting 10-pin headdresses.
Talking of these dancers, keep in mind when The Dude catches a peek beneath their skirts whereas sliding down the lane like a bowling ball about to make a strike? Bridges has a narrative about what happened whereas he was rehearsing that exact second that’s even racier than what ended up within the completed image. Check out the uproarious story behind one of the crucial memorable scenes from probably the greatest films of the ‘90s.
Jeff Bridges Acquired a Massive Shock Rehearsing The Gutterballs Dream Sequence
Whereas showing on TBS’ Conan, Jeff Bridges recalled to host Conan O’Brien concerning the day he was set to rehearse the Gutterballs scene within the now basic Coen Brothers film, which had him lay on a skateboard that pulled him alongside the bowling lane beneath the “Bowling Pin Corinnes.” Seeing this as an ample alternative to make use of his Widelux panning nonetheless digicam, after receiving unusually enthusiastic permission from the pinnacle dancer, he laid down on his skateboard and arrange the shot. The next is his description of what he noticed:
I search for and there… [laughs] beneath the leotard are these tufts of pubic hair popping out of this leotard… And I’m going, ‘Oh, OK’. And I push my digicam and the lens goes, ‘Tsssssh.’ And, as I’m going, [to] the following girl… there are extra tufts. It’s, like, extra ornate. After which the following one… [it’s like a whole] forest.
The Academy Award winner lastly mentions, earlier than the then late night time discuss present host goes insane with embarrassment, that the “tufts” have been really crepe hair that had been utilized by the make-up division as a sensible joke on the actor. Whereas I think about this was a hilarious discovery to make after the actual fact, I additionally wouldn’t be shocked if experiencing the prank within the second should have been very uncomfortable for Bridges, contemplating who was on set that day.
Jeff Bridges’ Household Was In On The Prank
In the beginning of the actor’s story to O’Brien, Bridges says that he believed it will be a enjoyable concept to ask his spouse, Susan Geston, and three daughters, who have been throughout the 7 to 9-year-old age vary on the time, to the Massive Lebowski set on the day he was scheduled to shoot the Gutterballs scene. Nonetheless, he was advised that was a “horrible error,” given the cheekily sexual nature of the scene. He should have actually felt like he tousled when he noticed the “tufts” protruding from beneath the dancers.
Fortunately, because it seems, Bridges’ spouse and kids have been really concerned in crafting the prank – a element that was particularly bewildering to O’Brien. But, I suppose you might name that the type of second that brings households nearer collectively.
As Bridges additionally mentions throughout his dialog with O’Brien, the {photograph} he took together with his Widelux on that very day may be discovered on his web site, JeffBridges.com, together with different photographs he snapped whereas making The Massive Lebowski and different nice Jeff Bridges films. I can actually perceive should you would relatively depart the visible of the prank as much as the creativeness however, you must admit, simply realizing this story makes rewatching the rewatchable cinematic basic much more fascinating.