Bruce Willis' family announces he has aphasia

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Anonymous wrote:Must be bad if his family is putting out a statement instead of him. Good luck to them all.

Also explains the weird pandemic family set up they had going. Bruce was pictured living with Demi and his adult daughters during Covid in a remote area but not with his second wife and under 8 daughters.

So his youngest kids wouldn’t know what was going on? I wonder how he was able to handle his brief appearance in his movie that was filmed in 2020.

Terribly and I can see why his family his making this public now. He was prolific. They wouldn't want him to diminish his portfolio by struggling in roles or just dropping out.

Bruce Willis — who starred in no less than eight movies in 2021 — has been given his own category at the 42nd annual Razzie Awards. “Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movie” is the name of the new category, and the nominations include every single film he starred in last year, including American Siege, Apex, Cosmic Sin, Deadlock, Fortress, Midnight in the Switchgrass, Out of Death, and Survive the Game. Midnight in the Switchgrass was dead last in Vulture’s ranking of straight-to-VOD Bruce Willis films, with our reviewer commenting, “Bruce Willis is a nonessential worker here.”

https://www.vulture.com/2022/02/razzie-nominations-worst-bruce-willis-performance.html

Honestly I am happy we have an explanation for why his acting was so terrible in recent movies, it felt like he didn’t care but instead was just struggling.

So that begs the question why he did all of those movies last year.
Not clear if he was contracted to do the movies before his symptoms / diagnosis, or if symptoms began and he couldn’t get out of the projects, or if he was symptomatic and still wanted to continue filming for some reason.
Seems unkind to release details about his poor acting now knowing this diagnosis.

The Razzie announcement was in Feb. Perhaps they’ll walk that back now.

Bruce Willis in Moonlighting was my first celebrity crush and I still love him, but he was definitely familiar with the Razzies even when he was perfectly healthy. You can’t be that prolific and not make a bunch of duds. But when he was good it was amazing.

Same, have crushed on him since Moonlighting. I wondered if he made all of those B films recently to stockpile money for his family, knowing he’d need to retire soon due to this condition.

I think that was the deal, yes. He made a contract with a producer to give his name to a bunch of straight-to-video movies in exchange for money, and the producer was aware of his need for specific supports. Both benefitted.

Between Moonlighting residuals for syndication and the many millions he was paid for years of blockbuster movies, why the hell did he need to do that?

Because he has 5 kids with 2 different women—2 of whom are quite young, and their mother doesn’t work. Plus, he might need costly care as he ages. Smart to quickly get paid before he had to retire.

3 of his kids are adults, and his net worth is hundreds of millions. He didn't need to make any more money for himself and his family. Did you read the LA Times article? He didn't know where he was or why he was there. That goes way beyond having lines fed to him.

I’m sure he wanted to do his best to provide for his family. Let’s be real: his family is accustomed to a luxury lifestyle, and none of them are equipped to work. His youngest kids are very young, and their mother doesn’t work. They’ll be caring for him as his health declines. Their estates are massive and will require upkeep.

I’m baffled as to why anyone would blindly accept anything written in the LA Times article. It aims to paint a picture that Bruce was pimped out against his will. Do you really think his family would allow that? They appear to be a tight family. Bruce was literally living with Demi—presumably to help him. Zero chance she would pimp him out.

The LA Times article was a cruel hit piece. His family clearly rallied to break the news themselves since they were tipped off that it was coming.

It really wasn't a hit piece, it made no accusations against his family. But without the article he'd be on to filming another five movies this year.
Knowing what you know now, look again:

There was a thread about this here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/872578.page

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Anonymous wrote:Must be bad if his family is putting out a statement instead of him. Good luck to them all.

Also explains the weird pandemic family set up they had going. Bruce was pictured living with Demi and his adult daughters during Covid in a remote area but not with his second wife and under 8 daughters.

So his youngest kids wouldn’t know what was going on? I wonder how he was able to handle his brief appearance in his movie that was filmed in 2020.

Terribly and I can see why his family his making this public now. He was prolific. They wouldn't want him to diminish his portfolio by struggling in roles or just dropping out.

Bruce Willis — who starred in no less than eight movies in 2021 — has been given his own category at the 42nd annual Razzie Awards. “Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movie” is the name of the new category, and the nominations include every single film he starred in last year, including American Siege, Apex, Cosmic Sin, Deadlock, Fortress, Midnight in the Switchgrass, Out of Death, and Survive the Game. Midnight in the Switchgrass was dead last in Vulture’s ranking of straight-to-VOD Bruce Willis films, with our reviewer commenting, “Bruce Willis is a nonessential worker here.”

https://www.vulture.com/2022/02/razzie-nominations-worst-bruce-willis-performance.html

Honestly I am happy we have an explanation for why his acting was so terrible in recent movies, it felt like he didn’t care but instead was just struggling.

So that begs the question why he did all of those movies last year.
Not clear if he was contracted to do the movies before his symptoms / diagnosis, or if symptoms began and he couldn’t get out of the projects, or if he was symptomatic and still wanted to continue filming for some reason.
Seems unkind to release details about his poor acting now knowing this diagnosis.

The Razzie announcement was in Feb. Perhaps they’ll walk that back now.

Bruce Willis in Moonlighting was my first celebrity crush and I still love him, but he was definitely familiar with the Razzies even when he was perfectly healthy. You can’t be that prolific and not make a bunch of duds. But when he was good it was amazing.

Same, have crushed on him since Moonlighting. I wondered if he made all of those B films recently to stockpile money for his family, knowing he’d need to retire soon due to this condition.

I think that was the deal, yes. He made a contract with a producer to give his name to a bunch of straight-to-video movies in exchange for money, and the producer was aware of his need for specific supports. Both benefitted.

Between Moonlighting residuals for syndication and the many millions he was paid for years of blockbuster movies, why the hell did he need to do that?

Because he has 5 kids with 2 different women—2 of whom are quite young, and their mother doesn’t work. Plus, he might need costly care as he ages. Smart to quickly get paid before he had to retire.

He has earned hundreds of millions of dollars. People care for two families and long term care with far, far, far less.

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I suspect his doctors encouraged the work. Generally for those with cognitive decline working as long as you can is encouraged as it slows the cognitive decline.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect his doctors encouraged the work. Generally for those with cognitive decline working as long as you can is encouraged as it slows the cognitive decline.

There is no way his doctors encouraged him to do 20 films in 4 years. That's crazy talk. Stress exacerbates serious medical issues.

Now if you had said his entertainment lawyers who bill by the hour were sending out on contracts to be worked like a show dog and 'insisting' on $20 million payouts were he could only work 2 days of a shoot for 8 hours max...then yeah. They got their billing hours in.

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If heks as bad as described by those that have recently worked with him, then he’s pretty far along. Dementia is sad.

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This makes me so sad. I wonder how aware he is of his condition now. If he he able to communicate at all. It makes me sad it is something that needed to be made public too. Awareness is awesome - I hope our collective memory of him will not be the circumstances surrounding his diagnosis.

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Anonymous wrote:If heks as bad as described by those that have recently worked with him, then he’s pretty far along. Dementia is sad.

I was looking at his movie history - he was in his first movie with Chad Michael Murray in 2017. Now, nothing against CMM, I'm a huge OTH fan as well as his holiday movies on cable, but he is not A-list material. So I'm thinking he started doing these bad movies where he gets top billing but is only in a few scenes as far back as 5 years ago?

This is so sad. I just think of him as the pinnacle of a huge star. Remember those Seagrums golden wine cooler commercials from the 80s? I discovered them again when I tried to see if I could stream Moonlighting and came across this great article (basically you can't streamline moonlighting because the music rights would cost too much which SUCKS). https://decider.com/2020/03/31/moonlighting-show-is-not-streaming-or-even-available-to-buy-and-thats-a-crime/

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Anonymous wrote:If heks as bad as described by those that have recently worked with him, then he’s pretty far along. Dementia is sad.

I was looking at his movie history - he was in his first movie with Chad Michael Murray in 2017. Now, nothing against CMM, I'm a huge OTH fan as well as his holiday movies on cable, but he is not A-list material. So I'm thinking he started doing these bad movies where he gets top billing but is only in a few scenes as far back as 5 years ago?

This is so sad. I just think of him as the pinnacle of a huge star. Remember those Seagrums golden wine cooler commercials from the 80s? I discovered them again when I tried to see if I could stream Moonlighting and came across this great article (basically you can't streamline moonlighting because the music rights would cost too much which SUCKS). https://decider.com/2020/03/31/moonlighting-show-is-not-streaming-or-even-available-to-buy-and-thats-a-crime/

There are a bunch of Moonlighting episodes on YouTube.

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Anonymous wrote:If heks as bad as described by those that have recently worked with him, then he’s pretty far along. Dementia is sad.

I was looking at his movie history - he was in his first movie with Chad Michael Murray in 2017. Now, nothing against CMM, I'm a huge OTH fan as well as his holiday movies on cable, but he is not A-list material. So I'm thinking he started doing these bad movies where he gets top billing but is only in a few scenes as far back as 5 years ago?

This is so sad. I just think of him as the pinnacle of a huge star. Remember those Seagrums golden wine cooler commercials from the 80s? I discovered them again when I tried to see if I could stream Moonlighting and came across this great article (basically you can't streamline moonlighting because the music rights would cost too much which SUCKS). https://decider.com/2020/03/31/moonlighting-show-is-not-streaming-or-even-available-to-buy-and-thats-a-crime/

It’s clear he could no longer be the leading man in a movie. So they made as many movies as the could to make money before his health was made public. Probably at least 1-2 million each, or more. The only one who could have made this happen is his wife. Pretty sure it’s called greed.

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Anonymous wrote:If heks as bad as described by those that have recently worked with him, then he’s pretty far along. Dementia is sad.

There’s an interview with a BBC show from 2013 promoting A Good Day to Die Hard where he’s incoherent. They blamed it on jet lag at the time.

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Anonymous wrote:If heks as bad as described by those that have recently worked with him, then he’s pretty far along. Dementia is sad.

There’s an interview with a BBC show from 2013 promoting A Good Day to Die Hard where he’s incoherent. They blamed it on jet lag at the time.

He's not remotely incoherent. He says "what does that title mean, A good Day to Die Hard? Maybe it could be Get a sandwich and go shopping" he was pointing out that it is a nonsense. And it is.

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Wow, I didn’t realize he was such a great dancer.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect his doctors encouraged the work. Generally for those with cognitive decline working as long as you can is encouraged as it slows the cognitive decline.

Not at all. No decent doctor would encourage work with long hours where you could potentially harm someone. It was a doctor who basically got my dad to stop.

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My father, a lifelong alcoholic was diagnosed with and died from complications from end stage primary progressive aphasia.

Diagnosed at 77, died at 83.

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Anonymous wrote:If heks as bad as described by those that have recently worked with him, then he’s pretty far along. Dementia is sad.

There’s an interview with a BBC show from 2013 promoting A Good Day to Die Hard where he’s incoherent. They blamed it on jet lag at the time.

He's not remotely incoherent. He says "what does that title mean, A good Day to Die Hard? Maybe it could be Get a sandwich and go shopping" he was pointing out that it is a nonsense. And it is.

It was circulated and commented on at the time to the extent they issued a statement to explain it. He's very mumbly and his responses certainly have the hosts confused.