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Generally Speaking I Would Say I Enjoy The Smaller Films More Because There's A Less Sense Of Pressure And Often The Material Is More Unusual. But In "iron Man" It Was Kind Of Like Both Worlds Colliding Because There Was A Lot Of Improvisation, Not That We Improv-ed In The Scenes But To Discover The Actual Scenes Themselves.

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Generally Speaking I Would

Jeff Bridges

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Generally Speaking I Would Say I Enjoy The Smaller Films More Because There's A Less Sense Of Pressure And Often The Material Is More Unusual. But In "iron Man" It Was Kind Of Like Both Worlds Colliding Because There Was A Lot Of Improvisation, Not That We Improv-ed In The Scenes But To Discover The Actual Scenes Themselves.

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