Here’s Jeff Bridges Recounting A Hilarious Story About ‘The Big Lebowski’ Dream Dancers’ Gigantic Pubes

In the pantheon of memorable screen characters, few can match Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski in terms of cult status and likeability. The same goes for the guy behind the Duder, Jeff Bridges, a guy who is full of surprises and always armed with an interesting tale.

For this particular story, it’s good to know that Bridges is an avid photographer on his various movie sets, usually capturing these great behind the scenes photos with his Widelux camera. From The New York Times:

Since 1984, Mr. Bridges has documented the sets of most of his movies, compiling a large collection of wide images that give an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at movie making.

“My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I’ve done my whole life,” he said in a phone interview. “I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.”

The Big Lebowski was no different, most of which you can peruse in this video or through Bridge’s book of photography. That’s where the humorous incident from the video above comes from, and all in front of Bridge’s family. From Mediaite:

“So I snap my camera and I say, ‘My God, that woman has huge tufts of hair coming out of her leotard,’” he recounted. “I mean, the pubes are just insane! And I got to the next one and they’re even more glorious.”

“Finally, I find out that the girls went to make-up man and shoved crepe hair into their leotards,” he revealed. “And thank God, they were all wearing merkins.”

Quite the awkward scene for your kids to see, but at the same time, it had to be a bit more awkward to see a clan of savage pubes staring back at you without some sort of notice. Merkin or no merkin.

The Dude is obviously a creep though, a very laid back, easy going creep. Takes a great photo though.

(Via Mediaite / New York Times / Olaf Westra / Jeff Bridges)

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