Jeff Bridges on The Old Man - and instilling joy on set

Life successful betwixt filming the archetypal and 2nd bid of The Old Man has been vastly antithetic for Jeff Bridges.

The Oscar-winning histrion led the archetypal play of the enactment thriller astatine 70, seemingly steadfast and acceptable to instrumentality connected the world. However, unbeknown to him astatine the time, he had undiagnosed non-Hodgkin lymphoma and a 9x12 inch tumour successful his stomach, which would necessitate aggravated treatment.

Rather than the often utilized connection of "fighting" the cancer, Bridges described himself arsenic being "in surrender mode" arsenic helium not lone went done chemotherapy but besides contracted COVID-19.

However, helium acceptable himself the extremity of walking his girl down the aisle, which helium did successful 2021, and has since said his tumour has been reduced to "the size of a marble".

Now, The Big Lebowski histrion has returned to the tiny surface for the 2nd play of Disney+ amusement The Old Man, which tells the communicative of a erstwhile CIA operative connected the tally and besides stars Conclave's John Lithgow and Blink Twice histrion Alia Shawkat.

Despite a immense vocation successful film, this is Bridges' archetypal clip starring a TV bid - a format helium saw his begetter Lloyd Bridges excel successful erstwhile helium was a child.

"With movies, you person a beginning, mediate and an end," helium tells Sky News. "You cognize wherever you're going. That's not the lawsuit successful the series, it's exciting."

The American histrion says helium makes an effort to instil "joy" and kindness connected his sets, crediting his father's emotion for the creation of acting for wherefore helium remains truthful positive.

"I mean, helium taught maine each the basics of acting and he, dissimilar a batch of parents who are successful showbiz, wanted each his kids to spell into showbusiness. He loved it truthful much."

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Bridges has appeared connected surface since helium was conscionable six months aged and would permission schoolhouse to articulation his begetter connected the acceptable of his series.

"The mode helium approached his enactment with specified joyousness [was admirable] and that was the main happening I learned from him... Whenever helium came connected the set, that joyousness was benignant of contagious and everybody would say, hey, this is benignant of fun, what we're doing to get to play, dance, unreal present with each these large folks and we tin person a bully time."

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Bridges says helium was fortunate to enactment with his begetter a fewer times arsenic an big and that the quality to make a relaxing and amusive situation that allowed artists to flourish was thing helium wanted to replicate successful his ain work.

On set, helium meets with each originative taking portion successful his films and shows, from costume designers to the accumulation team.

"That's specified an important facet of my work, getting a position from their take... each these things commencement to travel unneurotic and they person a cumulative effect connected however your quality comes off, and they're reasoning of it from a wholly antithetic constituent of view.

"That's precise invaluable to me, you know, to perceive the history, wherefore the idiosyncratic got that peculiar portion of covering and what not."

Season 2 of The Old Man is disposable to watercourse connected Disney+ from 6 November.