Bruce Willis quits acting due to aphasia

dankind

Surprised that the usual misogynists have not blamed Courtney Love yet.

The Juggler

mace1229 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

PJ_Soul said:

That's sad... but it also explains what the problem has been lately. I was literally googling "why can't Bruce Willis act anymore" about 3 days ago after seeing a couple of his recent movies. I was perplexed. So I definitely very much noticed something was wrong.

The rumour has been that he made as many of them "Geezer Teasers" as possible while he could, to gather money for his family.

I wouldnt guess that’s the best cash grab. Typically low-budget films that get big actors still don’t pay the big actor a lot. Just just accommodate the shooting schedule so they have them for a few weeks. That’s how It’s Always Sunny got Danny Devito. I believe they’d shoot his scenes for the entire season in a week or 2, then go back and film the rest.
Committing to a couple big budget films I would think would pay off more. And I’m only guessing these are a string of low budgets since no one has heard of any of them, but that could be wrong.

I was reading about this last night. Therein lies the problem with someone with his condition. He was having problems not being able to remember his lines so he was not getting those big budget movies anymore and even got cut from some of them because he just wasn't able to act very well. To make matters worse--the studios were moving in a different direction and making fewer and fewer of the kinds of movies he was used to doing for so long.

For most of these low budget straight to video garbage movies he made, he got paid $1,000,000 for about two days worth of work. It was mostly the same director on all of them. The director and studio got the benefit of slapping his face on the movie poster to generate some interest and saying Bruce Willis was in their movie while Willis got the benefit of making tens of millions over a relatively short period of time for doing not much of anything, except sacrificing his reputation as an A list actor......but now with his condition publicly known, I would think that would subside .

mace1229

I didn’t realize it was only 2 days of work. I thought usually it’s at least a week or 2. Not a bad gig then.

The Juggler

mace1229 said:

I didn’t realize it was only 2 days of work. I thought usually it’s at least a week or 2. Not a bad gig then.

Yeah I guess he was hardly in some of these movies but they just wanted his name and face associated with them. 

Cliffy6745

Sad stuff. LA Times article talked about how bad it was over the past couple years and his roles/lines in movies had to be cut back significantly and that he had an earpiece in to feed him the lines.  Sounds terrible.

Spiritual_Chaos

mace1229 said:

I didn’t realize it was only 2 days of work. I thought usually it’s at least a week or 2. Not a bad gig then.

The Juggler said:

mace1229 said:

I didn’t realize it was only 2 days of work. I thought usually it’s at least a week or 2. Not a bad gig then.

Yeah I guess he was hardly in some of these movies but they just wanted his name and face associated with them. 

https://youtu.be/cd1eNS9HtXo

The Juggler

^
Yeah. This stuff is pretty interesting. Obviously takes on a different meaning now....but still pretty wild. 

goldrush

This really sucks, Bruce was a 'real' action star. What a shitty diagnosis for him.

I couldn't watch more than a few minutes of that Half In The Bag video. Of course they didn't know about Bruce's condition at the time, but the guy on the right seemed like such a smug little prick.

YourDirtisMyfood

Terrible news.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/entertainment/bruce-willis-dementia/index.html