Jeff Bridges Almost Missed Out On Crazy Heart

Wednesday 10th March 2010 - 13:26:59

Jeff Bridges reveals that he turned down Crazy Heart.

The actor won the Best Actor Oscar at the weekend for his role as Bad Blake in the Scott Cooper directed movie.

But Bridges admitted that it was the lack of music in the script when he first read it that made him turn it down.

Speaking to CMT News he said:  "I did! Because - not that it was a bad script, but it was missing an essential ingredient. It didn't have any music!

Quite a few years ago, I did a movie called The Fabulous Baker Boys and that set the bar pretty high for me as far as doing a story about a musician.

On that, we had the great Dave Grusin, who was a musical hound who organized all the music, but we also had all these great jazz and pop standards to work with, but on this one we had nothin'!

Then about a year later, I ran into my old buddy T Bone Burnett and he said, 'What do you think about this Crazy Heart script?' I said, 'Why do you ask? Are you interested in that?' He said, 'Hey, I'll do it if you'll do it.' And I said, 'Come on! Let's go, man!'"

The actor will be back on the big screen later this year as he returns to the role of Kevin Flynn in Tron Legacy.