He's still The Dude 25 years on! Jeff Bridges reunites with Big Lebowski pal John Goodman

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The Dude and his bowling buddy Walter reunited after 25 years when John Goodman presented Jeff Bridges with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 Critics' Choice Awards following his cancer battle after being diagnosed with lymphoma in 2020.The 70-year-old Goodman delivered a heartfelt speech about his longtime friend before presenting the 73-year-old Goldman with the award.Goodman revealed all of the 'camaraderie and friendship' they felt behind-the-scenes translated to the screen, 'all because of Jeff.

25 years: The Dude and his bowling buddy Walter reunited after 25 years when John Goodman presented Jeff Bridges with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 Critics' Choice Awards  Friendship: Goodman revealed all of the 'camaraderie and friendship' they felt behind-the-scenes translated to the screen, 'all because of Jeff' 'He was so committed and would deliver his hilarious "Dude-isms" so effortlessly that no one ever knew where Jeff ended and the dude began,' Goodman said, adding he, 'continues to play such a wide range of characters and tends to lose himself in all of them, before they showed a clip package and Bridges took the stage to accept his award. 'Thank you, John!

Thank you, John. Thank you, critics. The dude, from Lebowski, he would say, this is just like your opinion, man,' Bridges joked.

He added it was his father's Lloyd Bridges' (who passed away in 1998 at 85) birthday today and he, 'wouldn't be up here without my dad.