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Warning: The following story contains spoilers from \u201cThe Old Man\u201d Season 2, Episode 8.<\/em><\/p>\n The second season of FX\u2019s\u00a0\u201cThe Old Man\u201d<\/a> may have ended on a truly jaw-dropping power flip, but for series developer and executive producer Jonathan E. Steinberg, it was \u201ca long time coming.\u201d<\/p>\n Season 2 revolved around saving Angela\/Emily (Alia Shawkat), a goal that required Chase (Jeff Bridges) to team up with his former partner-turned-rival Harper (John Lithgow) to rescue the woman they both see as a daughter. That journey forced them to put their differences aside and travel to Afghanistan. But as Angela\/Emily spent more time in the country, she learned that her real father was actually Faraz Hamzad (Navid Negahban). In the process, she embraced her new identity and discovered her heritage, becoming Parwana Hamzad.<\/p>\n The season ended in a complete upset. In order to ensure Parwana\u2019s safe return to America, Harper partnered with his ex-wife, former British agent Marion (Janet McTeer). But in the process, he disappeared. In the final moments of \u201cXV,\u201d Parwana tells Chase in no uncertain terms that he will be helping her do whatever it takes to get Harper back. Much like how Season 1 ended with Chase begrudgingly teaming up with Harper, Season 2 ends with him begrudgingly partnering with Parwana.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom the beginning of the story, there\u2019s been a significant part of it that\u2019s been about parenting an adult child and being an adult child and dealing with parents who are aging,\u201d Steinberg told TheWrap. The showrunner noted that this power dynamic swap between Chase and Parwana is similar to \u201crealizing your child has real authority and agency and is not compelled to listen you anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is, obviously, the most outsized version of that we can imagine,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt felt like an interesting place to take a story and an interesting place to take that relationship between Jeff and Alia\u2019s characters.\u201d<\/p>\n The scene between Bridges, Shawkat and Amy Brenneman as Zoe McDonald was filmed over two days. \u201cIt took a long time because they did so many special shots. Even though it seems like such a simple scene, there\u2019s lots of angles to give it this dramatic effect,\u201d Shawkat told TheWrap.<\/p>\n Filming the scene across several days allowed the actors to experiment more with this pivotal scene. However, both Bridges and Shawkat emphasized that the emotional weight of the moment was baked into the script itself.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a photographer. When you\u2019re taking a picture, sometimes you\u2019ll bracket your exposures,\u201d Bridges explained, referring to the process of taking the same photo multiple times. \u201cI like to do that with my acting as well. The actors make their painting, and then the editor and the director cut those paintings up and make a collage out of it. It\u2019s a communal art form here. So I want to give my compadres as much choice about what\u2019s going to work once they start piecing it together.\u201d<\/p>\n Bridges is a big proponent of trying takes in different ways. \u201cIt can give you some good surprises, to yourself and to everybody else,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n \u201cIt starts off with them reuniting in this beautiful scene \u2014 them seeing each other after he thought she was dead. Then, by the end, she\u2019s really put him in a position where his hands are tied and he\u2019s getting on a plane, no matter what,\u201d Shawkat explained. \u201cIt\u2019s a great scene that captures the whole show from the first season. In a way, it\u2019s saying what you thought you knew was the truth isn\u2019t, and now you\u2019re going to have to pay for it.\u201d<\/p>\n To play Parwana\u2019s discovery of her own identity, Shawkat leaned into the atmosphere of the series as well as her own relationship with her racial identity.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m mixed race. I sadly haven\u2019t been to Baghdad where my father\u2019s from, but anytime I\u2019m in an environment with other people from there or any other Arabs, it\u2019s this feeling where you\u2019re like, \u2018I am one of you, but I\u2019m also not,\u2019\u201d she said, noting that there have been times when she hasn\u2019t felt \u201cethnic enough\u201d or \u201cwhite enough.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t feel like I fit in fully.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI leaned into that in an extreme way. She wants to be a part of these people. She knows she\u2019s like of them \u2014 they\u2019re the same \u2014 but she\u2019s had such a different life, so she doesn\u2019t feel the same,\u201d Shawkat added. \u201cIt\u2019s that identity thing of wondering who she really is and feeling kind of lost.\u201d<\/p>\n The actor kept the inner turmoil Parwana experienced front of mind when she approached this final episode. \u201cShe\u2019s coming apart in this season, and then what\u2019s left after that? I played that as much as I could,\u201d Shawkat said. \u201cBy the time you get to the diner scene, I wanted it to be like she\u2019s been through so much and she has nothing else to hide. She\u2019s just looking at [Chase] like, \u2018You\u2019re going to get on this plane. There\u2019s nothing else to do.\u2019 She\u2019s not putting on any more masks at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n As for Chase\u2019s claims that he has seen and done things that are \u201cuglier than death,\u201d Bridges told TheWrap he\u2019s spoken to Steinberg about what that may mean. \u201cI don\u2019t know where exactly it\u2019s going. I have an inkling, though,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Steinberg also noted that the team around \u201cThe Old Man\u201d is now building Season 3\u2019s story around \u201cthe answer to that.\u201d \u201cIt isn\u2019t as simple as killing bad guys anymore. It\u2019s way more complicated,\u201d Steinberg teased.<\/p>\n As for the future of FX\u2019s thriller, it remains unclear. However, both Shawkat and Bridges are hopeful there will be another season. \u201cI\u2019ve signed on for three, and I love working with the people and I\u2019m excited about where the story is going, so I just kind of play it by ear. I haven\u2019t figured that far in the future yet,\u201d Bridges revealed.<\/p>\n \u201cAs much ground as the story\u2019s covered already, in a way, the relationship between Jeff and Alia\u2019s characters has really just started. What I\u2019d be excited for in Season 3 is to watch them have to occupy the same space in the story and deal with each other. They don\u2019t get to use a phone as a buffer,\u201d Steinberg said. \u201cWe all feel really good about the story we\u2019re telling and the team that\u2019s been built.\u201d<\/p>\n View this article at The Wrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Warning: The following story contains spoilers from \u201cThe Old Man\u201d Season 2, Episode 8. The second season of FX\u2019s\u00a0\u201cThe Old Man\u201d may have ended on a truly jaw-dropping power flip, but for series developer and executive producer Jonathan E. Steinberg, it was \u201ca long time coming.\u201d Season 2 revolved around saving Angela\/Emily (Alia Shawkat), a\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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