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  • Catch the multi faceted Jeff Bridge on Inside the Actors Studio this Sunday at 7:00pm

    MUMBAI: He got cast in a film when he was an infant and has not looked back ever since. He has performed in over 60 films and received several nominations in Academy awards, Golden Satellite, Screen Actor’s Guild, and The Golden Globe. His peers have saluted him with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

     

    But Jeff Bridges is much more than just an actor. He has several talents and pursues them with equal passion. To put it in his words, “I don’t think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.”

     

    Read below to catch some interesting Trivia about this American actor…

     

    He is the son of Lloyd Bridges, the brother of Beau Bridges and the uncle of Jordan Bridges, who are all successful actors

     

    Although he and his father Lloyd Bridges appeared in six different productions together, they never played father and son

     

    In his off time while on sets, he is known to document the filmmaking process by photographing fellow actors and on-set staff with a panoramic camera. He has published many of these photographs online and in print titled “Pictures”

     

    Bridges is also a cartoonist. Some of his “doodles” have appeared in various films, such as K-PAX and The Door in the Floor.He incorporates his drawings on his web site, notable because it is almost completely hand-written and drawn art—not typed

     

    He loves playing the guitar and indulges in music at every opportunity he gets

     

    He married Susan Geston on June 5, 1977 after meeting her on the sets of Rancho Deluxe in 1975. The couple have 3 daughters, Isabelle , Jessica ,and Hayley

     

    At the age of 17, he was addicted to marijuana. His parents contacted a group called Developing Adolescents Without Narcotics, which put Bridges through an “intervention” to kick his habit

     

    He is a big fan of the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, former lead singer/song writer for the group.

     

    Before Bridges went to school, he served in the United States Coast Guard.

     

     

    Meet the very talented Jeff Bridges in a discussion with James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio this Sunday at 7:00 pm on PIX.

  • Catch Hugh John Mungo Grant in a tete- a- tete with James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio this Sunday on PIX

    MUMBAI: Inside the Actors Studio is proud to welcome Hugh Grant, this Sunday Jan 21st, 7:00pm on PIX. Although his classic good looks make him a shoo-in for romantic leads, Grant’s comic capabilities — marked by a nervous stutter, desperately fluttering eyelids, and an ability to capture a brand of distinctly English embarrassment, have marked him as more of a comic performer than a serious leading man.

    He has won various awards like the Venice Film Festival Best Actor Award, The British Academy Best Actor Award and the Golden Globe award and many more. Some of his very popular movies are Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sense and Sensibility, Extreme Measures, Notting Hill, Mickey Blue Eyes, Bridget Jones’ Diary, for which he was nominated for an Empire Award. Read below to take a quick peep into Hugh Grants’ Diary and watch out for much more this Sunday on Jan 21st at 7:00pm on PIX…

    Got his start by performing in a British comedy sketch group, The Jockeys of Norfolk

    His favorite artist is Patrick Rondat

    Is an avid golfer and has been spotted taking part in pro-am tournaments

    Won the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy at the 1995 and 2002 Evening Standard British Film Awards

    His production company is called “Simian Films” — so named by Elizabeth Hurley because she has said that he resembles an ape or a monkey

    Opted not to do a nude scene in Four Weddings and a Funeral when a make up artist asked if he wanted definition painted on his body

    On the set of Mickey Blue Eyes, James Caan gave Hugh the nickname of Whippy, because Caan said Hugh worried about everything like “the little whippet dogs that get nervous and you got to put a sweater on them when they’re cold”

    Featured in the 1996 paperback “Mug Shots” that includes many other celebrities who’ve been arrested for one reason or another

    So what you waiting for… get yourselves ready for a cozy Sunday evening with Hugh Grant in an exciting episode of Inside the Actors Studio on21st January, 7:00 pm only on PIX…

  • ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio’ will complete 200 episodes in the US

    ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio’ will complete 200 episodes in the US

    MUMBAI: US broadcaster Bravo has announced that its show Inside the Actors Studio completes 200 episodes on 25 June. The guest is Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman

    James Lipton sits down for a candid tell-all of Hoffman’s life and career as one of the most prominent actors of his time. In India, the show airs on Pix.

    For the uninitiated, the interview based show is hosted by James Lipton. He has interviewed some of the world’s most accomplished actors and directors for interviews. What is unqiue about the show is that it is taped in front of students at The Actors Studio Drama School. In addition to his duties as host, Lipton is also the dean of the school.

    Dwelling on his bad audition for his breakthrough role in The Graduate Hoffmann recalls, “I went to shake the prop guy’s hand, and all my subway tokens fell out of my pocket. And he picked them up and handed them back to me, saying, ‘Here kid, you’re gonna need these.”

    As far as what motivates him to act, Hopffmann says, “A friend told me to take acting, and I asked him ‘Why? I don’t want to act.’ And he said ‘Because no one failed acting.’”