Bruce Willis’s cognitive health has declined largely over the years. The evidence of it is his twice misfiring a full-loaded gun on the wrong cue. And he didn’t even have a clue what he was doing on a movie set.
After he was diagnosed with aphasia, an ailment that damages his capacity to comprehend language, actor David Willis, 67, is retiring from acting. His family announced the news on Instagram Wednesday morning, calling it “a sad day for us as his loved ones.”
The aforementioned actress Lala Kent, who starred as Willis’ daughter in Hard Kill, remembers that the action hero discharged a gun on the incorrect cue twice during production in 2020.
‘I’m supposed to think that my life is about to end, and then my father appears to rescue the day,’ she told the Los Angeles Times, recalling how she had her back to him during the scene and was supposed to duck before he pulled out his gun.
Fortunately, no one got injured in the incident and the film’s producer didn’t consider it happened. More recently, Willis openly questioned why he was on the set of a low-budget film titled White Elephant.
Since his 1970s debut, Willis has appeared in over 70 films. His instantly recognized appearance aids in the sale of low-budget films in foreign countries.
He’s teamed up with the production companies Emmett/Furla Oasis and 308 Entertainment in recent years, according to the LA Times.
After Willis’ first failure on the set of Hard Kill in 2020, she says she took it all in stride.
She advised Matt Eskandari to remind Willis to deliver his line before he fired, but it happened again.
The crew members were adamant that Willis fired the weapon on the incorrect signal, with one saying, ‘we’ve always made sure no one was in the line of fire when he was handling weapons.’
According to Randall Emmett, who started Emmett/Furla Oasis and has worked with Willis on 20 films, the rifle wasn’t fired prematurely. The armorer of the film also rejects that it occurred.
Jesse V. Johnson, the film’s writer and director, had only met John W. Willis once before the production of White Elephant began in Georgia last April, but he remembers him as ‘not being the Bruce I remembered.’
He claims that he notified the crew of an Emmy winner about his condition.
‘They said he was eager to be there and that it would be ideal if we could complete filming him by noon so that he may go home early,’ he recollected.
His scenes were rushed to film, and the actor was later heard asking what he was doing on location.
It was more of a nuisance than anything else, says one crew member. ‘It was like: “How can we not make Bruce appear bad?”‘ It became clear that he didn’t understand the script,’ adds another crew member. He had no choice but to go along with whatever they wanted.’
The screenwriter for the film Out of Death was instructed by the director to keep his lines “short and sweet” in 2020, with no explanation given.