Jeff Bridges

can do is smell the rotting mangoes man i'm a pouting yeah and she goes what's wrong i go nothing nothing she goes oh let's annul this i said no no it's just bad fruit yeah oh and i she put up with that shit for years really just that bad just recognizing the recognizing the rotten mangoes huh i feel that bro oh oh and uh

Thank God she didn't kick me to the curb and that I finally got with the program.

Nobody fooled me.

What made you get with the program?

Well, you know, I mentioned intimacy.

You know, you get so intimate and you go through so many bad times and good times.

And every time you go through a tough time.

you either give it up or your love and intimacy and connection have to grow to hold that weird thing that was threatening it.

But sometimes I think it was fear or it was like... Well, as we're talking about the metaphor...

It's not so much choosing the sand for me, but it was I'm going to choose this handful of sand, sand being all the bullshit.

Yeah.

Because there's a diamond in there.

You know what I mean?

So I said, okay, I'm going to take, you know, it was a – I'm so –

It was an unconscious decision on that side, although I felt it was so strongly that I gave myself that caveat, which is a weird thing to go into a marriage saying you can always get a divorce, man.

But that's not a bad call.

God, I guess not, man.

It worked.

Yeah.

Well...