In a recent interview with MoviesOnline, Jeff Bridges discussed working on next summer's Iron Man.  "It's been wonderful working with Jon Favreau, who's the director of the film and is a wonderful actor as well who I've admired for a long time," says Bridges.  "I remember the first thing he did, Swingers, which he wrote.  He did such a great job."

As for working with Robery Downey Jr., Bridges says, "[Downey and I] were talking about improvisation in this and we were doing a lot of improvisation in Iron Man to discover scenes and getting off of the written page and doing a lot of work like that.  I know that Jon is very interested in grounding it in as much reality as he possibly can.  That's kind of informing the whole thing.  Like, the suit for instance, I don't know if you saw the first suit, but it looks very primitive.  It looks like, 'Oh yeah, maybe that could happen.'  It's all plausible."

Bridges admitted he was a fan of comics growing up, but was not too familiar with Iron Man before taking on the role of Obadiah Stane.  "I wasn't too much into Iron Man," says Bridges.  I was more into Superman.  I was into The Green Lantern."

Bridges will be filming Iron Man until June and then plans to star in the adaptation of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People with Kirsten Dunst and Simon Pegg of Hot Fuzz fame.  "I play the head of a magazine," explains Bridges.  "The chief editor that Simon is working for.  I think that it's loosely based on a book of the same title."