Jeff Bridges Breaks Down ‘The Old Man’ Season 2 Finale and How It Sets Up a Potential Third Season

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Jim Halterman SPOILER ALERT: The following interview contains spoilers from “XV,” the Season 2 finale of “The Old Man,” now streaming on Hulu.

There was no tying things up in a neat bow on Thursday’s finale of FX’s “The Old Man,” which wrapped up the drama’s thrilling second season with a cliffhanger hinting at things to come.

That doesn’t mean there wasn’t some resolution in “XV,” such as former CIA operative Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) escaping death after girlfriend Zoe (Amy Brenneman) reached him in time to administer an antidote needed to stop a deadly virus he’d been exposed to earlier.

Once in a safe house to recover with Zoe watching over him, Chase was also reunited with his presumed-dead daughter Emily (Alia Shawkat), who opened up the story for would make up the show’s third season. (At press time, the Emmy-nominated series has yet to be officially renewed.) As viewers wait for renewal news, Bridges talked to Variety about Chase’s complicated relationships with the surprising women in his life, how the Academy Award-winning actor managed the intense role while dealing with his own personal bout with stomach cancer and where he places “The Old Man” in his well-versed acting career.