Jeff Bridges talks about True Grit in Cowboys and Indians Magazine:
All three characters, Bridges says, “have their own brand of ‘true grit.’ ” And if Cogburn seems a tad bit grittier than the others, that’s intentional: “I’m supposed to be the meanest and toughest of all the hombres in that town.”
Bridges displayed ample grit of his own when he agreed to ride tall and shoot straight just like Wayne during the remake’s final gunfight. “I got to do the classic reins-in-my-mouth riding while firing the guns when we were in hot pursuit of Tom Chaney,” the bad guy played by Josh Brolin. “I tried these tricky moves on a mechanical horse first,” Bridges admits, “before Joel Coen asked if I wanted to try it for real.”
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