During filming of the production “Midnight on Switchgrass” in 2020, actor Bruce Willis forgot he was on a recording set, according to a member of the crew.
Alicia Haverland appeared in “The Randall Scandal,” a documentary that details allegations of director Randall Emmett’s abusive behavior, and detailed the portrayal of Bruce Willis.
She took care of the props on the set and claimed that Bruce Willis’s symptoms of aphasia, which is a disorder that makes it difficult for a person to communicate, were so severe that he forgot he was on a film set one of the days. recording. Alicia went to serve more coffee to record a scene, but the actor did not understand that they were filming and treated her like a waitress.
“I went to pour the coffee again and, we were probably doing take number seven or eight, he put his hand in the coffee, looked me right in the eye and said, ‘Oh no, ma’am, I don’t ‘don’t want any more’”.
She said she tried to explain that she was pouring coffee into his cup for the scene, but he didn’t understand. She was moved and then decided to pretend she was a waitress to finish recording.
Previously, the woman had already given an interview talking about the difficulty of Bruce Willis in everyday scenes: “You would have to be blind not to see him fighting”.
Others on the set said they saw the actor get confused by instructions to open a door in one scene. As well as needing an assistant to play your lines into a headset.
Alicia Haverland said she met Bruce in 2020 and he was “the sweetest, most soft-spoken man”. In the documentary, she laments that she didn’t do anything while director Emmett freaked out about the Hollywood star’s difficulties. “We should have said something.”
Emmett and Bruce Willis recorded other films, even after Lala Kent, actress of “Die Hard”, stated that it was sad to work with the actor because he did not know where he was.
The director denied knowing about the worsening condition of Bruce Willis. The actor’s lawyer said he struggled to continue working.
After being diagnosed with aphasia, Bruce Willis left the film sets in 2022 when he retired from his career in Hollywood. In March 2023, he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, which is a progressive neurodegenerative disease.
Source: CNN Brasil
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