Bruce Willis

[famvir]

Mar 31, 2022 12:03:10 GMT -4 scarlet said:

Mar 31, 2022 11:54:01 GMT -4 groovethang said:

This all makes me so sad 😞

It is. I'm also side-eyeing that his team of handlers had him do 20 movies (20!) in the last four years. It reeks of milking the cash cow for as long as they could.

I noticed the number of films he’s been in lately as well. It seemed very odd.

[Binky]

Internet comments from crew members on his past films seem to indicate they noticed deterioration starting as early as 2016. I’m assuming he wanted to keep working as long as he could (and make money for his younger daughters/his own medical needs), and the “support” team making so much money off of him really kept it going beyond when it was time to have him retire. What a shitty turn of events.

[Ladybug]

Jun 22, 2005 23:24:48 GMT -4 scarlet said:

It was among 22 films Willis did in four years.

What the hell? Five movies a year!? This man was clearly not well and was being carted around by handlers for $2 million a day. This is giving me "Britney in Vegas" flashbacks.

[Ginger]

How do we know it wasn't Bruce pushing to make as many movies as possible while he still could? It sounds like he would be disoriented off and on. He has a wife who could have stepped in if she felt Bruce was being taken advantage of.

Just because Bruce has made a lot of money doesn't mean he still *has* a lot of money. He's more discreet than Nicolas Cage or Johnny Depp about how he spends, but I still think he lives pretty large. He probably wanted to get money in the bank for his wife and children.

[canuckcutie]

Actors often talk about having to get physicals / medical clearance for filming so I’m hoping that at some point he did have to be assessed to be “fit” for work.

I do suspect that when Bruce became aware of his health issues and that his ability to generate income would be limited he wanted to try to cram as much work as possible into whatever time he could. His two younger kids are 8 and 10 so I can see a scenario he wanted to assure that they were well taken care of, especially if his healthcare costs started to pile up.

[cremetangerine82]

Mar 31, 2022 14:52:16 GMT -4 canuckcutie said:

Actors often talk about having to get physicals / medical clearance for filming so I’m hoping that at some point he did have to be assessed to be “fit” for work.

I do suspect that when Bruce became aware of his health issues and that his ability to generate income would be limited he wanted to try to cram as much work as possible into whatever time he could. His two younger kids are 8 and 10 so I can see a scenario he wanted to assure that they were well taken care of, especially if his healthcare costs started to pile up.

That’s a good point of why Bruce Willis was popping out so many movies, and I noticed that his dialogue was also very brief according to the reviews I’ve seen in his recent movies. Also, so many of these movies look like they’re so bargain-basement, I don’t know if he needed the amount of medical clearance or physicals in order to make these. Some of these movies he probably only spent one day or two on.

Sadly, what I just confused as disinterest and low effort in his multiple movies, could’ve meant that his medical condition that caused his aphasia made him unable to have long lines of dialogue. I’ve never been a huge Bruce Willis fan (he’s always seem like an entitled dick to me), but for someone who works in acting, a condition like this is devastating. I really feel for him, and he probably trying to make as many films as he could before he would be unable to work.

[kissandrachablis76]

Many of the movies Bruce did in recent years were produced by Lala Kent's ex-boyfriend Randall Emmett. There was a Vulture article from exactly a year ago that talked about how Randall would use aging stars in need of money and pay them big money to do 1-2 days work. Then he'd slap the star's face on the center of the movie poster to leverage sales in foreign markets, even though the actor might only be in the picture for a total of 15 minutes.

The point being that 22 movies where you are on set for 1-2 days and you don't have much dialogue isn't nearly as demanding as you think when just reading the number of movies Bruce made in 4 years. All total, he would have spent less than a month on set in four years.

[cubanitafresca]

Mar 31, 2022 13:59:34 GMT -4 Ladybug said:

Jun 22, 2005 23:24:48 GMT -4 scarlet said:

It was among 22 films Willis did in four years.

What the hell? Five movies a year!? This man was clearly not well and was being carted around by handlers for $2 million a day. This is giving me "Britney in Vegas" flashbacks.

22 movies sounds like a lot of work. But that article says that he only worked 2 days on one of the movies. So, the reality is that it might have been as little as 20 days a year, with months between each job. He may have felt like it was worth it to grind out as many films as he could to make sure his family was taken care of. He's got young kids and his wife is in her 40's so I'm sure he wanted to make sure they were set for life.

[groovethang]

Remember at the beginning of the pandemic shutdown, people online were really confused as to why Bruce was staying with Demi and their kids instead of in LA with wife and their kids? It suddenly makes sense. Given that people are saying his issues may have started back in 2016, maybe he wasn’t able to get the care and attention he needed (weren’t his wife and kids quarantined?) so having him stay with them may have been so they could look after him.

[lae]

My mom has a neurological condition and cognitive decline and it’s been really hard to get her to give up her independence and the things she was used to doing. She didn’t want to retire, she didn’t want to give up her house, she doesn’t want to stop driving, and so on. As long as she is competent enough to make her own decisions, there’s not really a lot anyone can do. It also takes a lot to get someone declared medically incompetent, even if they do have a degenerative condition, as there can be a long way between onset and impairment of multiple daily functions. All this to say, maybe Bruce wasn’t being taken advantage of. Maybe he genuinely wanted to work. He’s been an actor most of his life now and I’m sure his career is important to him. Plus, long-term care is costly. It sounds like he did get to a point where he just wasn’t physically able to do it anymore and is now retiring. I have seen some of his recent movies on streaming when there just isn’t anything else on and I’m like “Oh, this has Bruce Willis” and he usually doesn’t have a big role. I mean, it’s totally possible that studios or his family were exploiting him but that isn’t necessarily the first conclusion I would jump to.

ETA: I assume these lower budget movies weren’t as strict with performance and insurance as a bigger studio so that might be why Bruce hadn’t been anything of bigger quality in a while as well.