Cinemacomo Bruce Willis continued to work even with frontotemporal dementia

Assassin and Detective Knight: Independenceboth released in 2023, were the last films of Bruce Willis. Now 70, the actor was diagnosed with frontothemporal dementia in 2022 and had to end his career due to health condition.

But how did the action film star continue to work in his final career years, already facing the disease, even if not diagnosed in the period?

Emma Heming Willisthe artist’s wife, reveals this and other details in the book The Unexpeted Journey (The unexpected journeyin Portuguese). The work is expected to go public in September in the United States And there is still no date to go out in Brazil.

According to the website The Daily Beast (via Look), who had access to an excerpt from the work, Emma explained that Bruce Willis had a support team to help you recording your final scenes.

According to the actor’s wife, these employees exercised tasks as remind you of speech through an electronic point. Furthermore, monitored the script From the movie so that Bruce would not take over very extensive dialogues, among other care.

Emma Heming Willis has already said that The Unexpeted Journey It is not a biography or a work of memories about the actor. It is a self-help book for caregivers and other professionals working with terminal patients.

Bruce Willis and FrontTemporal Dementia

Bruce Willis was initially diagnosed with aphasia, a condition that compromises the ability to communicate. In early 2023, however, the actor’s family reported that the painting was more serious and delicate, and Frontotemporal dementia was diagnosed.

At the time, Emma Willis said in a statement:

“We wanted to update our beloved husband, father, and friend, since we now have a deeper understanding of what he is living. Since we announce the diagnosis of Bruce aphasia, his condition has progressed and now we have a more specific diagnosis: Frontotemporal Dementia (known as FTD).”

Married to the actor since 2009, she also told the magazine Town & country (via People) That a preliminary diagnosis had confused symptoms of dementia with stuttering. Therefore, the family was slow to have full knowledge of the disease.

“Bruce always had stuttering, but it was good at disguising her. (…) His language began to change, it seemed part of a stutter, but it was just Bruce. Never, in a million years, I would think it would be a form of dementia in someone so young.”

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