Donning a mangy bathrobe and pronounced paunch, Bridges hid his light under a bushel, so to speak, with The Dude- and earned his most beloved performance in the process.
Some will disagree, but to this day, "Hi" McDunnough plays as a Coen character first, a Cage character second.) But then along came Jeff Bridges, a Hollywood legacy with handsome leading-man looks, to upend the paradigm with his seminal performance as "The Dude" in 1998's The Big Lebowski. ("Even Nicolas Cage in Raising Arizona?" you might say, dubiously.
Up until around the turn of the millennium, a Coen-friendly actor was a character actor, someone who could disappear into a role without conjuring up memories of the person performing that role. But that's not what's happening in Hail, Caesar. A cynic might speculate that the Coens have "gone Hollywood," swapping out weirdo character actors for leading-men types.
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