Jeff Bridges Cancer Battle Update: 'Iron Man' Star Wants To Tour With His Band After Health Issue

"Iron Man" star Jeff Bridges is ready to take on a new venture and become a musician soon.

For years, Bridges has established his empire as an actor that he successfully scored several accolades for years, including a Golden Globe, an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. While he spent decades acting, he revealed he desired to take on a musician role through his project band.

Jeff Bridges To Embrace the Music Industry

National Enquirer (via RadarOnline.com) cited a source's claim revealing Bridges' plans with his project band, The Abiders.

"Jeff is plotting big things for his band in the coming year," the insider claimed. "With his TV gig on The Old Man resuming shooting in the spring, Jeff has been writing songs and recording music so he can play dates around his filming schedule."

Although Bridges would earn more if he focused on photography, the insider said touring and playing music are his major plans for now especially since it is good for his soul. His cancer battle also kept him away from doing music projects.

Aside from cancer, Bridges also fought COVID-19 twice. The challenges reportedly made him feel a "sort of heightened experience of dancing with my mortality," he told People.

"When you get close to losing something like that, your gratitude and your thankfulness for what you have, the people that you love, and the love that you feel for your loved ones, grows," he said. "It just magnifies it, and that was something positive that came out of it."

He credited people closest to him - including his wife, Susan Geston, and their three daughters - for helping him when he faced cancer and COVID.

Jeff Bridges' Cancer Update

Bridges' return to music will be possible, as he told AARP Magazine how cancer was nothing compared to COVID. The latter diagnosis led to his five-week hospitalization.

He disclosed that his tumor has shrunk after undergoing treatments and therapies.

"I didn't think I'd ever work again, really," he went on. "So at first I said, 'Well, we'll see.' But eventually that became, 'Maybe I can.' I have to admit that I was still frightened of going back to work. Then I began to think of my recovery as a gift being presented."