Family strong. After announcing that her father, Bruce Willis, would be stepping away from acting amid his battle with aphasia, Rumer Willis is reliving their sweetest family memories.
06.04.2022 - 04:53 / perezhilton.com
This is so moving!
Last week Kevin Smith was one of many colleagues to reach out to Bruce Willis in the wake of the announcement he was retiring from acting due to a diagnosis of aphasia. But the Clerks director’s words were special — because the two parted on famously bad terms.
But all that bitterness fell away when Kevin learned of his former hero’s condition. He tweeted:
Well, over the weekend the raconteur was asked during a WonderCon Q&A to speak more about Bruce, and that he did.
First, he quickly recapped the feud for those who didn’t know, reminding that he had directed Bruce in an action comedy called Cop Out. After the film came out, Kev was not shy about how difficult, lazy, and generally unpleasant Bruce had been on set. He revealed he got so frustrated he even punched a hole in the wall of his trailer!
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But over the years, he said, he had actually gotten over it on his own — time healing all wounds, after all. He told the crowd self-deprecatingly:
But he still didn’t think highly of the man. And then he learned about his cognitive issues. He said at that moment he “stopped thinking about Bruce Willis as the guy I worked with and started thinking about Bruce Willis as the guy who I used to watch on TV as a kid with my mom.”
Awww. He went on to recount how much of a hero Bruce was to him growing up, not just because of his weekly viewings of Moonlighting with his mom but also because he was a star from New Jersey — not too far from where Kevin was.
So when he thought about how much the man loved to perform, not just to act but to sing (Kevin had all his albums), he was “heartbroken” and any memories of being angry and frustrated melted:
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Family strong. After announcing that her father, Bruce Willis, would be stepping away from acting amid his battle with aphasia, Rumer Willis is reliving their sweetest family memories.
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Kevin Smith regrets his comments about Bruce Willis in light of the 67-year-old actor's recent news that he will be stepping away from his acting career after being diagnosed with the brain condition aphasia. Smith, 51, took to Twitter, retweeting the news, and writing, «Long before any of the Cop Out stuff, I was a big Bruce Willis fan — so this is really heartbreaking to read. He loved to act and sing and the loss of that has to be devastating for him.