It has been two years since the actor Bruce Willis suffered the health setback that removed him from the professional world: frontotemporal dementia, a brain disorder that mainly affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, and that has kept him away from the world of interpretation ever since.
To celebrate Bruce Willis’ 69th birthday, Demi Moore, ex-wife and mother of the actor’s daughters, published several images of Bruce Willis accompanied by a congratulatory message: «Happy birthday, BW! “We love you and we are very grateful for you,” she read in her Instagram post. After the publication, the post was filled with comments of support and affection for the interpreter.
Bruce Willis He is known for a wide range of films, and a television series such as Moonlight, throughout his career. Among them, those that form the saga that began in 1988 with Die Hard (Die Hard). This film launched Willis to fame as the intrepid John McClane of the New York City Police Department, who finds himself trapped in a skyscraper during an attempted robbery, and attempts to rescue his wife and other hostages who are being held. held by a group of terrorists led by Hans Gruber, played by Alan Rickman. The film is a classic of action cinema and gave rise to a saga with several sequels that turned Bruce Willis into a world-renowned action star.
The success of the first film was such that the sequel soon appeared. However, the filming of The Jungle 2: Red Alert It was not without controversy. Recently its director, Renny Harlin, revealed something that caught attention. During filming he had a conflict with Willis, since the actor refused to say one of the phrases that the scriptwriters had written for him, considering that “funny comments are nonsense. “In a real situation, with lives at stake, you can’t say that kind of thing.” The truth is that the actor did not want to add humor to his character, and he had a constant fight with the director over this issue throughout filming.
The reason for the discussion comes from a short cut, a simple dialogue of no more than 10 seconds, which went down in history for a phrase of John McLane. This is the situation: John is waiting for his wife at an airport and, after a confrontation with several suspicious guys (exchange of gunfire included), he takes the fingerprints of one of the dead people and goes to an information desk inside the airport. airport. There, a receptionist appears to assist him and tells him that she is going to fax him the guy’s fingerprints so he can compare them. At that moment the girl at the reception says: “I’m closing in an hour, are we going to have a drink?”, to which John McClane replies: “Just the fax, darling, just the fax,” says Bruce’s character. Willis while pointing to his wedding ring.
For the actor this phrase“it was cheesy”, and he did not want to say it, although, in the end, he did so reluctantly. These words became a memorable moment in the film and one of the many demonstrations of Bruce Willis’ charisma in the saga. However, the director acknowledges that he spent an hour trying to convince the actor to get involved and say it: ” It took 15 takes. But it’s in the movie and people love it. He’s not just funny, he shows that he cares about his wife. He makes him relatable and really an honorable guy. Because it’s not just about saving the world, but about something much more personal,” he said.Renny Harlin.
