Being an action hero in the eighties was not an easy task, and the main reason was the fierce competition that existed at that time and that was maintained during the passage of not only the years, but the decades. As a sample, there they are the legendary feuds between performers of the stature of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger; who has not hesitated to praise one of his former competitors.
“A Big, Big Star”
During an interview with CinemaBlend, the Austrian, who has just released the series ‘Fubar’ on Netflix, has not hesitated to praise his partner in the first two installments of ‘The Expendables’ Bruce Willis; throwing a warm and optimistic message after the sad withdrawal of the interpreter due to his severe health problems.
“I think he’s fantastic. He was always, for years and years, a huge, huge star. And I think he will always be remembered as a big, big star. And a kind man. I understand that because of his circumstances as far as to health, he had to retire. But in general, you know, we never really retire. Action heroes reload.”
Schwarzenegger’s words have arrived practically at the same time as the emotional writing of Talula, daughter of Bruce Willis, who has explained the process of discovering his father’s illness. She has done so in a text published in Vogue in which she reveals how she misinterpreted the communication impediments caused by the disease.
“My family announced in early 2022 that Bruce Willis suffered from aphasia, a brain-mediated inability to speak or understand language, and this year we’ve learned that this symptom is a hallmark of frontotemporal dementia, a progressive neurological disorder that ranges deteriorating his cognition and behavior day by day.But I’ve known something was wrong for a long time.
It all started with a kind of vague non-response, which the family attributed to Hollywood hearing loss: “Speak up! Die Hard messed with Daddy’s ears.” Later, that lack of response was amplified, and sometimes I took it personally. He had had two children with my stepmother, Emma Heming Willis, and I thought he had lost interest in me. Although this couldn’t be further from the truth, my adolescent mind was tormented with a miscalculation: I’m not beautiful enough for my mother, I’m not interesting enough for my father.”
Hopefully, as good old Arnold says, Bruce Willis gets a chance to reload and shine again like the star it has always been.
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