The Role: Starman

Why It’s The Best: All our suspicions are confirmed – Bridges is really from outer space. Or, he is in this mostly horror-free offering from Halloween director John Carpenter. Bridges plays Starman, an alien who takes on the form of a widow’s dead husband on Earth.

In a nice trivia link, the Starman pays for a Cadillac with cash – something Bridges’ character in Thunderbolt And Lightfoot expressed a desire to do one day. It was also on Starman that Bridges first started taking behind the scenes snaps on his movies.

Iconic Moment: “Do people eat people?” asks Starman, as he surveys the carcass of a dead deer. And then brings it back to life.

Jeff Says: “I approach most parts the same, looking at aspects of yourself that you can draw on. And then I look at friends that I know personally that remind me of this guy.

"One of those guys was a fellow named Russell Clark who was a dancer and had these interesting movements, so I thought I’d hire him to teach me some dance and kind of approach this thing like a dancer.

“I felt if I cracked that opening scene, then it would be a process of just becoming more human as the film went on. It was almost like imagining that I was somebody in a human body as if it was a ride, not myself. Like I was driving it around.

“And then it was impersonating. So Starman would see that and rather than knowing why you did it he would do it and it wouldn’t be for the purpose, it would be kind of a bad impersonation.”