Bridges is a truly talented performer, but according to Julianne Moore, he’s a pretty peaceful professional too. As she told Vanity Fair:
“I could go on and on about Jeff, he’s just a genius. And also maybe one of the loveliest people I’ve ever worked with. He’s just so, so lovely and so patient. There was one day when he was doing a speech, and at the same point in every take, a plane would circle and it went around 14 times. 14 times he had to do that monologue and he never got mad. I was like, ‘He’s something else.'”
The scene in question is likely the one where The Dude confronts Moore’s character Maude because he believes that he’s being sent on a wild goose chase by her father, the titular “Big Lebowski.” He has to try and explain the entire complicated situation of mistaken identity to Maude, who is otherwise out of the loop. One can almost imagine him being interrupted by a plane droning by outside. “The Big Lebowski” was shot in and around Los Angeles, California, home to one of the busiest airports in the world, so there’s always a risk of a plane messing up the sound on a take. Instead of getting outwardly frustrated, Bridges apparently just went with it, delivering a stellar performance as one of the most laid-back human beings in cinematic history.