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[This story contains major spoilers from the season two finale of\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Old Man<\/em>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n In the world of espionage, one could say nothing is ever as it seems. And that notion definitely proved true in the season two finale of\u00a0The Old Man<\/a><\/em>, which aired Thursday night on FX.<\/p>\n Last week\u2019s episode found Emily Chase\/Angela Adams\u2019 (Alia Shawkat<\/a>) father, former CIA agent Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges<\/a>), and her surrogate father, former FBI assistant director Harold Harper (John Lithgow<\/a>), gallivanting around the globe to avenge the then-believed death of their beloved daughter by Russian mercenaries who are part of an international cartel in Afghanistan trying to take control of a mega-wealthy lithium deposit owned by a small tribal community.<\/p>\n The community\u2019s chief was a man named Faraz Hamzad (Navid Negahban), who happened to be Emily\u2019s real father. Emily, now going by her birth name Parwana Hamzad, was taken away as a child by her mother to grow up in America after her mother fell in love with fierce CIA assassin Chase. When she grew older, Emily became known as Angela Adams and was also adopted into Harper\u2019s family, as\u00a0she trained to become a top-notch FBI field agent.<\/p>\n But Emily\/Angela always sensed (and heard rumors) that she didn\u2019t truly belong with the American families who loved her dearly. Something or someone was pulling her to the Middle East. In season one, she thought it was part of a mission to kill one of the deadliest terrorists known to the free world. But as viewers found out at the end of that season, and in much of season two, that believed terrorist was Hamzad pulling the strings, as much to lure back the daughter who was taken away from him many decades ago.<\/p>\n What season two of\u00a0The Old Man<\/em>\u00a0reveals is that a loving, seeking and seemingly sensitive Emily\/Angela\/Parwana may truly have been a cunning wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing. Having fallen in love with the Afghanistan people, Parwana proved to be just as violent, vengeful and merciless as the old man when the enemy, or anyone, tries to hurt the ones Chase loves.<\/p>\n Ironically, both Chase and Harper end up in peril trying to find out why their daughter was killed (not knowing yet that she survived her attackers). Chase is poisoned by an airborne chemical and his only solution is to be taken by his enemies, the Russians, who have the antidote. And Harper goes to Hong Kong to visit his former wife, a former British agent name Marion (played by Janet McTeer), who has selfish reasons for wanting to see Parwana survive an invasion of the deposit lands by Russian cartel leader Suleyman Pavlovich (Rade Serbedzija) and Chinese members. Once she hears that Parwana is alive, she decides to hold her ex-husband hostage and use him as a pawn to draw out the new tribal leader. Parwana, however, won\u2019t stand for that. And if she\u2019s anything like her father, this could be the deadliest mistake Marion has ever made.<\/p>\n In the finale\u2019s last scenes, Emily finds Chase, lets him know, in no uncertain terms, that she\u2019s not the sweet daughter he once thought he knew, and that he needs to go the extreme and find Lou Barlow to help rescue Harper from the clutches of Marion. She doesn\u2019t care how much blood is spilled.<\/p>\n The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u00a0recently spoke with the old man himself, Jeff Bridges, about\u00a0<\/em>this shocking\u00a0<\/em>finale, what it\u2019s like preparing for the physical challenges of playing a senior spy, the love between daughters and fathers and to ask: Who the hell is Lou Barlow?<\/p>\n Jeff, no one is calling you an old man after watching your performance in these two seasons. How do you prepare mentally and physically for the shoots?<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, the physical aspect, you know, I got to get in shape, do some exercises and that kind of thing. I work with Tim Connolly and Tommy DuPont, the two stunt guys on the show, to really work out the fights and stuff. They are physically challenging. I love that they\u2019re challenging. But Tim, especially, he specializes in making it look very real.<\/p>\n The show is called\u00a0The Old Man<\/em>. So, you\u2019ve got the old man fighting like an old man. He might have some fighting jabs and shit, but you know he\u2019s an old cat. And a lot of times, well, you might see a little white in your beard there. You\u2019re an old guy, sometimes you\u2019re writing checks your ass can\u2019t cash. You say, \u201cOh, I know that move.\u201d But yeah. you think you know it. Your body has forgotten it.<\/p>\n So, is it the lithium reserves in Afghanistan that has\u00a0The Old Man<\/em>\u2018s world leaders willing to break ranks from their countries to form a super-wealth conglomerate and become their own self-contained superpower? We are talking about rogue agents from Russia, China, Britain and the U.S., among others<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Well, it\u2019s the future. It\u2019s all those kinds of elements that you are going to need for all of the modern equipment. Computers, and you know about this quantum computer. I don\u2019t know if you know about that, but just doing away with ones and zeros, a whole new kind of thing. I mean, everything is moving so fast now. And the guys who have the goods, they are going to be ahead of everybody. So, that is what the fight is all about.<\/p>\n In the reunion at the diner between Dan Chase, Zoe (Amy Brenneman) and Emily, Chase didn\u2019t seem shocked that his daughter was not only alive (after he heavily mourned her), but also that she was presenting herself as a formidable force and the new leader of her Afghanistan father\u2019s tribe. Chase sees his daughter as fierce and willing to do whatever to get what she wants. Does he now see Emily as the monster he created?<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t think he has any idea. But I don\u2019t think he\u2019s a guy who spends too much time being shocked. These spies and CIA guys, they have something called OODA. This stands for observe, orientate, decide and then act. That\u2019s a kind of game that these spies play with each other. And the quicker you are doing that process of orientating yourself to, \u201cWhat\u2019s going on here? Where am I in this situation? What am I going to do?\u201d and then act, that\u2019s kind of where his mind is going. And, she\u2019s pulled this fast one on him. I mean those cars are coming up, she\u2019s totally turned the tables. Just like the episode where he decides, \u201cI\u2019ve got to let these guys capture me; that is where the antidote is, I can\u2019t be running away.\u201d<\/p>\n He\u2019s pissed at his daughter for doing that. I got three girls of my own and I could be angry with them all the time and still love them. He can\u2019t believe it. But he\u2019s not one to show as much shock as somebody else might.<\/p>\n Did Angela\/Emily, in the end, morph into the persona of all three of her fathers \u2014 Dan Chase, Harold Harper and Faraz Hamzad \u2014 as the vengeful Parwana Hamzad (all played by Alia Shawkat)?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, interesting, in my opinion. But I don\u2019t think any of us really know who we are. We might think we know who we are, but life challenges really bring out who we are. And I think one of the reasons that Chase might not be so surprised is because he knows that he taught Emily everything he knows; so, he\u2019s not that surprised with her being so facile and changing things around and working like that. That\u2019s like playing a chess game with another great chess player. If he makes a good move, it doesn\u2019t surprise you all that much.<\/p>\n So, Zoe saves Chase\u2019s life and takes him to a place that is sort of like Shangri-La; yet there is still something not restful in his spirit. Why is that?<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t think he trusts that. He knows he wants it; he knows she wants it. But his wanting frightens him because he knows that he can get complacent with that. He\u2019s made a profession out of being inauthentic, creating illusions of being all these different people. I don\u2019t think he really knows who he is. And he longs to know who he is and have some authenticity, and that\u2019s what draws him to Zoe so much. Here\u2019s a person who starts to know more and more about him. And\u00a0 it\u2019s wonderful when you\u2019re lucky enough to have somebody who knows all different aspects of you, some not so flattering and some good aspects. And as the last episode indicates, he doesn\u2019t wanna lay Lou Barlow on her, man! He\u2019s not sure she can swallow that gag.<\/p>\n By the way, who do those dogs love more, Chase or Zoe? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n (Laughs<\/em>) That\u2019s funny! Well, they\u2019re kind of siding with Zoe. It looks like they break old Dan\u2019s heart a bit. Who knows, we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n We have to talk about this Lou Barlow.<\/strong><\/p>\n (Laughs harder<\/em>) I ain\u2019t telling you nothing! I\u2019m glad you\u2019re asking.<\/p>\n Lou Barlow must have made Dan do some terrible things.<\/strong><\/p>\n So, Dan is Lou Barlow, right? I mean that\u2019s what he says at the end, he admits it. I don\u2019t want to bring him back, man!<\/p>\n I take it we are going to see a season three.<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know, the show hasn\u2019t been picked up yet.<\/p>\n Finally, did Morgan Bote [played by Joel Grey, the real \u201cold man\u201d\u00a0<\/em>who trained Harper and Chase] really love Dan and Harold? Do you think he cared for them, or just trained them to be killers for the love of their country?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes I do, but I think he also dug Zoe, man! (Laughs<\/em>) I keep teasing Amy. I said, \u201cI know you guys got it on.\u201d She said \u201cNo no.\u201d I said, \u201cCome on!\u201d\u00a0 Joel Grey was wonderful to work with, and he really adds a lot to the show, I think. I\u2019m sorry to see him go.<\/p>\n The thing that really makes a project for me is who you\u2019re working with, the different artists; that is one of the joys. It\u2019s kind of a communal art form. Everybody is playing together and it all trickles down from the top: [FX boss] Joe Landgraf, [producer] Warren Littlefield, our showrunner Jonathan E. Steinberg. All of those guys are creating a wonderful atmosphere for all the other artists to jam it.<\/p>\n Cinematography has been great; the directors. I was a little concerned about working with several different directors, but they\u2019ve all been well cast. Casting, not only with the actors, but all of the guys you bring together. That\u2019s the whole thing, basically. You get a top-notch cast to just go and do their thing. I think that\u2019s where you get the best kind of stuff.<\/p>\n View this article at The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [This story contains major spoilers from the season two finale of\u00a0The\u00a0Old Man.] In the world of espionage, one could say nothing is ever as it seems. And that notion definitely proved true in the season two finale of\u00a0The Old Man, which aired Thursday night on FX. Last week\u2019s episode found Emily Chase\/Angela Adams\u2019 (Alia Shawkat)
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