Jeff Bridges Was Not ‘Fond of' His CGI “Tron: Legacy” Appearance: 'I Looked More Like Bill Maher Than Myself'

Jeff Bridges got candid about his de-aged “recreation” in 2010’s ‘Tron: Legacy’

Jeff Bridges has notes on his appearance in Tron: Legacy.

After leading 1982 sci-fi classic Tron, the 74-year-old actor reprised his role as video game programmer Kevin Flynn in the 2010 sequel starring Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde. But a de-aged version of himself as another character, Clu (Codified Likeness Utility), resembled Bill Maher, he recently said on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast.

Asked by Horowitz about his likeness being digitally scanned, Bridges said, “It’s the new thing… I got scanned and in the computer for when we did Tron 2 — What was it called? — Legacy.”

He continued with candor: “I wasn’t particularly fond of that recreation of myself. I thought I looked more like Bill Maher than myself.”

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The Joseph Kosinski-directed Tron: Legacy continued the story of Kevin Flynn, who in the original film was transported into a video game of his own design. A return to “the Grid” is imminent with Tron: Ares, scheduled to be released by Walt Disney Pictures on Oct. 10, 2025. It will star Jared Leto, Evan Peters and Greta Lee, and include a cameo again from Bridges, Disney announced in May.

The actor confirmed on Happy Sad Confused that his appearance in the Joachim Rønning-directed Ares is a brief one. While it’s unclear if de-aging technology will again be used to recapture his youth in the new film, Bridges agreed when Horowitz posited that such technology has improved since 2010.

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Of the “bizarre” original Tron, he said, “Things that are that off-the-wall, that haven’t been done, are kind of safer in a way. Because there’s nothing to compare it to.”

Tron, written and directed by Steven Lisberger, broke ground with its use of visual effects, which largely came from computer animation. While it earned nominations at the 1983 Oscars for costume design and sound, the movie was deemed ineligible for the visual effects category.

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Teasing the new installment in August, Leto, 52, told PEOPLE that it will speak to "the culture and the technology of the times that we're living in."

Rønning, meanwhile, said in a statement that Tron: Ares “builds upon the legacy of cutting-edge design, technology and storytelling. Now more than ever, it feels like the right time to return to the Grid.”

Also starring in Tron: Ares are Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan and Gillian Anderson. It will come to theaters Oct. 10, 2025.

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