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PolyGram and Working Title Films, who had funded Fargo, backed The Big Lebowski with a budget of $ 15 million.

In casting the film, Joel remarked, " we tend to write both for people we know and have worked with, and some parts without knowing who's going to play the role.

In The Big Lebowski we did write for John and Steve, but we didn't know who was getting the Jeff Bridges role ".

In preparation for his role, Bridges met Dowd but actually " drew on myself a lot from back in the Sixties and Seventies.

I lived in a little place like that and did drugs, although I think I was a little more creative than the Dude ".

The actor went into his own closet with the film's wardrobe person and picked out clothes that he had thought the Dude might wear.

He wore his character's clothes home because most of them were his own.

The actor also adopted the same physicality as Dowd, including the slouching and his ample belly.

Originally, Goodman wanted a different kind of beard for Walter but the Coen brothers insisted on the " Gladiator " or what they called the " Chin Strap " and he thought it would go well with his flattop haircut.