Bruce Willis suffered an accident on the set of ‘Tears of the Sun’ that would have caused him aphasia

Without a doubt, Bruce Willis has been one of the biggest action stars in Hollywood. Since his great performance in the hit franchise Hard to Kill from 1988, he did not stop starring in masterpieces such as pulp fiction, 12 monkeys Y The fifth element, earning the admiration and affection of action movie fans.

Sadly, in March 2022, the beloved 67-year-old actor shocked the world by announcing that he would retire from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia.

Aphasia is an acquired language disorder that can occur after brain damage, usually a stroke or head injury from an accident.

For the protagonist of the movie Moonrise Kingdom, This diagnosis was a blow of fate that affected his cognitive abilities and the ability to dedicate himself to doing what he loves the most.

Nine months later and without the possible causes of Bruce Willis’ discouraging illness being disclosed, recently, the rumor about the possible origin of the German actor’s disease began to gain strength in the international press.

As reported by the British newspaper the sunBruce Willis suffered an accident while filming the 2003 war film Thetears of the sunwhich could be the cause of his aphasia.

The actor would have received a strong blow to the head with a special effects projectile, which caused significant damage to his physical and emotional state of health.

Because of this, a year after the release of Antoine Fuqua’s film, the actor sued Revolution Studios, the production company behind the feature film, alleging that he had suffered “extreme mental, physical and emotional pain”, as well as the special effects manager. , Joe Pancake, for negligence after being struck by a squiba special effects explosive intended to look like the impact of gunfire, during production in October 2002.

In April of this year, in an interview for Daily Mail, Pancake claimed that “the judge laughed in his (Bruce Willis) face and took him out of the courtroom.” In addition, he considered the hypothesis that his aphasia was the product of the accident during filming to be “nonsense”, arguing that it does not make sense that the symptoms suddenly appeared after 20 years.

According to the special effects expert, Willis and three other actors were firing hundreds of blank rounds from their automatic rifles and a “hot casing” struck the actor in the forehead.