{"id":66577,"date":"2025-10-08T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66577\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:38:08","slug":"jeff-bridges-revives-the-dude-to-slam-ice-raids-and-tell-america-to-calm-the-f-down-lets-get-ice-off-our-streets-and-into-our-beverages-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66577\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bridges Revives The Dude to Slam Ice Raids and Tell America to \u2018Calm the F\u2014 Down\u2019: \u2018Let\u2019s Get Ice Off Our Streets and Into Our Beverages, Man\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Bridges<\/a> revived The Dude from \u201cThe Big Lebowski<\/a>\u201d during the Oct. 7 episode of \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a>\u201d to ask 2025 America an important question: \u201cCan we just all calm the fuck down?\u201d The Oscar winner was on the late-night show to promote his new movie, \u201cTron: Ares<\/a>,\u201d but Kimmel had a different idea for the performer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in such a troubled time, I think, is a good way to say it,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cPeople are getting crazier every day and I wonder if you could perhaps summon The Dude<\/a> to share some words of wisdom tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimmel conveniently whipped out a cardigan and a pair of sunglasses to help Bridges<\/a> channel The Dude, which remains one of his most iconic characters. The actor happily agreed and was handed a White Russian to sip on, helping him complete his transformation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey world, The Dude here,\u201d Bridges said in character. \u201cSo, uh,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Bridges revived The Dude from \u201cThe Big Lebowski\u201d during the Oct. 7 episode of \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-66577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}