A year and a half ago, action star Bruce Willis ended his career. Where the star of Die Hard became aphasia diagnosed. Sick people lose the ability to speak and understand language. As a result, Willis was no longer able to practice his job. His illness has now developed into frontotemporal dementia rare form of dementia.
But Willis does not lose contact with his companions. Stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger repeatedly address the public, share memories of their time together and provide insights into Bruce Willis’ current health condition.
Willis made his breakthrough with the series Moonlighting – The Model and the Sniffer by Glenn Gordon Caron. That Caron spoke to the News York Post about his monthly visits with Willis.
“You’re grateful he’s there”: Moonlighting creator on Bruce Willis
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Glenn Gordon Caron describes some intimate details: “I feel like he knows who I am in the first minute or three”, he said. Bruce Willis “no longer fully able to speak”. He knew the actor as a passionate reader, “and now he doesn’t read anymore. All these language skills are no longer available to him, and yet he’s still Bruce.”
How painful the course of the disease is for friends and relatives becomes clear from the following sentence:
When you’re with him, you know he’s Bruce and you’re grateful he’s there, but the joy of life is gone. What role did Bruce Willis play in Moonlighting?
In Germany, Moonlighting is not available on any streaming provider, and home cinema boxes are also difficult to get. In the USA, Hulu included the series in a streaming offer for the first time ever (which, according to Bruce Willis, Glenn Gordon Caron is said to have been pleased).
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Next to Die Hard is Moonlighting perhaps the most important role in Bruce Willis’ career. For 4 years he played detective David Addison, who works for former model Madelyn “Maddie” Hayes, the owner of the detective agency. The fast, ironic dialogue style set the course for Bruce Willis’ career in the action genre, in which he gradually replaced superstars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.