Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Jeff Bridges knows firsthand what it means to persevere. During Wednesday's Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, the 74-year-old actor opened up about filming the first season of FX's "The Old Man" with a massive tumor inside his body.
"I’m feeling great now," Bridges said during a panel, per Entertainment Weekly . "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. So that’s surprising to me.
" JEFF BRIDGES TALKS 'THE BIG LEBOWSKI' AND HIS TERRIFYING NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE Jeff Bridges was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2020. (Getty Images) Bridges was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2020, while on a COVID-19 pandemic mandated break from filming the thriller. He first noticed something wasn't quite right during one of his routine workouts.
"I was doing some exercises while on the ground and felt what seemed like a bone in my stomach. I thought to myself, ‘Hmm .’ But it didn’t hurt or anything.
I asked [wife] Sue what she thought. She said: ‘I don’t know, but you’ve got to get it checked out.'" he said during an interview with AARP magazine in 2023.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER The actor says the massive tumor in his stomach was not painful. (Getty Images) "I’m hiking and feeling great," he continued. "My shin.