ActorBeau Bridgesis being honored in a place of special significance to his family.
His late father, actor Lloyd Bridges, traced his roots to the town in Californias wine country.
He was born in San Leandro and raised in Sonoma on Spain Street.
Beau Bridges at the 2024 Sonoma International Film Festival.Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images
Its set to premiere later this year.
Shes going to be great in this, Bridges says.
Its hard for me to keep a straight face with her.
That was a fun project.
Hes such a great guy.
And we filmed it pretty much in our backyard.
We have a home in Hawaii.
The boys would follow dad into the industry.
He loved this business and so we could see that, Bridges recalls.
He never pushed it on us, but he was our teacher.
He was a great dad too.
Lloyd was, Beau assures us, playing against bang out.
My dad, just personally, was a real straight arrow.
And then he did that part inAirplane!, A bad day to give up sniffing glue.
I said, You have so many young people that look up to you.
We really rode him really hard, but then he realized we were screwing with him.
They hung him upside down to get that effect where his hair was sticking up.
Lloyd Bridges died in 1998 at the age of 85.
Beau and his wife Wendy were in the audience as the cameras rolled at the CBS Radford lot.
It was til like midnight they were taping, Wendy recalls.
He was doing a lot of physical stuff, Bridges adds.
And he was getting up there [in age] and he was doing pratfalls and stuff like that.
We didnt particularly like that.
But he loved comedy and there was an aspect to him as a person that lent itself to comedy.
I mean, its been happening for thousands of years.
But I really appreciate being able to be a part of that whole thing.
Thats why I really love doing it, I think.
