Jeff Bridges’ cancer battle left him in ‘surrender mode’ while filming ‘The Old Man’
nypost.comPeople magazine. “Didn’t hurt. There was no pain. But then I had this long hiatus [from filming].”While he underwent chemotherapy and also contracted COVID during the show’s hiatus, Bridges was left wondering if he was “even going to do a season 2” of the program.“While I was sick, I thought I not only wouldn’t go back to ‘The Old Man,’ I thought I might just kick the bucket.
It got down to that,” he said. “I remember one doctor said, ‘You got to fight, Jeff. You’re not fighting.’“And I had no idea what he was talking about.
I was in surrender mode, just, ‘Everybody dies. This might be me doing that.’ And out of that surrender, like I say, all of this intense love surfaced, and maybe that’s what caused me to survive, I don’t know.
But I didn’t relate to the fighting thing, more of a surrendering.”In addition to treatments, “The Big Lebowski” star began intense physical therapy and set little goals with his therapist to help him focus on the future.
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