“I didn’t want to offend him as a thespo,” Bridges continued, addressing Leto, who is known as a method actor. “But I thought, ‘I wanted to have a certain intimacy with you. I know your name is Ares. Can I just call you Air?’ He said, ‘Yeah man! You can call me whatever you want!’ We had a great time.”

Jeff Bridges walked out to wild applause at the convention panel for Tron: Ares on Friday, riffing on his iconic line from The Big Lebowski after being teed up by host Kevin Smith. "The Grid abides," he declared to an adoring crowd.

Ares, original writer-director Steven Lisberger and star Jeff Bridges argue the ‘visionary’ 1982 movie ‘wasn't appreciated in its time.’

Tron: Ares, the third film in the Tron franchise, will soon bring artificial intelligence programs to the real world.

To be fair, Jeff Bridges doesn’t look all that different from the way Flynn looked in Tron: Legacy. The outfit was very similar. Although it was missing the glowing logo on the

The sci-fi franchise began in 1982 with Bridges playing a video game programmer who becomes trapped in the digital world. The sequel “Tron: Legacy” was released in 2010 with Garret Hedlund playing Bridges’ onscreen son; Joseph Kosinski directed.