“Before I knew him better, I thought, oh, shit, here’s this crazy comic,” Bridges said. “While I’ve got this serious monologue, he’s going to try to crack me up and wink at me. And it turned out to be the antithesis of that. He had no words or anything. He just gave me this quiet, meditative support, the way you imagine someone who you love being in a coma, and you’re talking to them. You imagine that, in some way, you know they can hear you.”
