Jeff Bridges filmed ‘The Old Man’ fight scenes with a stomach tumor: ‘So bizarre’

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initially didn’t know he had cancer when he was filming the first season of his FX show “The Old Man.” “What is so bizarre, to me anyway, in the first season when I was doing these fight scenes, I had a 9-inch by 12-inch tumor in my body, in my stomach, that didn’t hurt at all,” said Bridges at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Los Angeles on Wednesday while promoting Season 2 of the show, according to Entertainment Weekly.“So that’s surprising to me,” he added.Bridges went through chemotherapy after being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in his stomach in 2020.He said at the TCA event that he’s “feeling great now.”“The Old Man,” which follows Bridges as a retired CIA agent who is haunted by his past, had to pause production on its debut season when the actor learned of his cancer diagnosis in Oct.

2020.It all started when Bridges was doing a home workout and felt something unusual in his stomach.“I have been diagnosed with Lymphoma,” Bridges announced via X (formerly Twitter) at the time. “Although it is a serious disease, I feel fortunate that I have a great team of doctors and the prognosis is good.”The “Iron Man” star underwent chemo but then he contracted COVID in 2021 when the vaccine was not yet available.He later People he that he spent the next five months in extreme pain in the hospital, yelling for nurses to help him with oxygen every time he rolled over.“I was pretty close to dying.