After a season of authorized twists and household strife, the connection between Beau Bridges and Jason Ritter’s Matlock father and son characters is at a crossroads within the 2025 TV schedule. In actual life, although, the collaborators are literally fairly pleasant. A part of the rationale for that’s due to a wierd method that the late nice John Ritter and Bridges can be included in plenty of the identical conversations.
Throughout a Paley Middle occasion on behalf of Matlock’s early marketing campaign for the upcoming 2025 Emmys, Ritter admitted that his paternal determine on CBS’ hit authorized drama bore a putting resemblance to his precise father. By a TikTok video clipped from this panel interview, Jason Ritter shared as a lot with this anecdote:
, there’s this unusual factor, when Beau was forged, all through my total childhood in my life, my dad and Beau would get mistaken for one another on a regular basis. And there’s a little bit of a bodily similarity.
I can sort of see the place the person behind Matlock’s treacherous but tragic lawyer is coming from. Which is humorous, as a result of at first I used to be sort of immune to the thought, as John Ritter and Beau Bridges each have their very own trademark smiles.
However as if he was able to struggle off any challenges to that declare, Jason Ritter shared this subsequent piece of the story that cites a compelling piece of proof you don’t want a Paramount+ subscription to take pleasure in. He mentioned:
…my dad, one time, received a fan letter from somebody who had listed all of these items that he had completed and the performances that they cherished and mentioned, ‘Might you please signal the enclosed image?’ It was Beau Bridges on the seashore. So I already had this bizarre feeling of connection to him.
Now should you pull up that very photograph from many years earlier that Mr. Ritter talked about, it reveals the shaggy-haired smoke present that’s Beau Bridges, smiling away on the seashore. That exact mane of hair is what swayed me in the long run, as a result of between that and The Millers star’s high-wattage smile, Beau completely appears to be like like our beloved Three’s Firm icon.
And now that scene the place Bridges’ Matlock character mourns his brother sort of hits more durable for me, as a result of John Ritter enjoying that position might have been spectacularly humorous. (Which is, after all, no slight towards Beau’s precise brother, the equally legendary Jeff Bridges.)
You watch all of Beau Bridges and Jason Ritter’s Season 1 antics on Paramount+. Do not forget that CBS’ 2025-2026 fall TV lineup continues to be ready to supply a date for Matlock Season 2 to kick off and convey Kathy Bates again to the TV fold in grand trend.