A year-and-a-half bout with mortality can be trying, Oscar winner Jeff Bridges says.
“All your philosophies and spirituality and everything kind of comes to you,” he says. “It tests you.”
The health scare came in the middle of making “The Old Man,” a new FX series about a former CIA operative who’s on the run when an assassin tries to take him out. Also on his trail: the FBI’s assistant director for counterintelligence who has a shared past. John Lithgow plays the role. Oddly, “The Old Man” has a lot of action. Bridges worked with a trainer after he recovered, “learning how to walk and breathe and all that stuff. He was remarkable.” He also worked with Eric Goodman, the creator of “Foundation Training.” The plan includes an eight-point plank to deal with stress. “In life we try to avoid stress as much as we can, but life is stressful,” Bridges says. “So it’s a good idea to practice stress so you develop some skill in that.
“I do recall there was one time I reached a punchline and, from the distance, I heard 30 people laughing,” Lithgow says.When Lithgow shared that his brother was diagnosed with something very similar to Bridges’ lymphoma, Bridges"immediately got in touch with him. He sent him information and he’d never met the man.”
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