{"id":456,"date":"2022-06-30T22:06:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T22:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bruce-willis-struggled-on-movie-set-before-sharing-aphasia-diagnosis-crew-claims\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T22:06:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T22:06:52","slug":"bruce-willis-struggled-on-movie-set-before-sharing-aphasia-diagnosis-crew-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bruce-willis-struggled-on-movie-set-before-sharing-aphasia-diagnosis-crew-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Willis struggled on movie set before sharing aphasia diagnosis, crew claims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The extent that Bruce Willis struggled before going public with his aphasia diagnosis is being brought to light.<\/p>\n

within the Los Angeles Times<\/em>‘s expos\u00e9 about Hollywood producer Randall Emmett \u2014 who faces abuse and civil fraud claims \u2014 Willis’s struggles with acting, amid his struggles to communicate due to the disorder, are detailed. Emmett hired Willis to appear in two dozen films since 2006.<\/p>\n

While shooting Midnight in the Switchgrass <\/em>of <\/em>September 2020, <\/em>the action superstar from the die hard<\/em> franchise, now 67, couldn’t kick open a door \u2014 take after take. Willis, who had his lines fed to him via an earpiece because he could no longer remember them \u2014 was being coached through the scene by the voice on the other end. A stunt coordinator also tried to guide him. However, Willis didn’t seem to understand, seven crew members who were present claimed to the outlet.<\/p>\n

Emmett, who was directing for the first time, also tried to mimic for Willis what he needed to do for the scene. When that also failed, Emmett left the set in frustration, eyewitnesses claimed, and Willis stood there.<\/p>\n

“Did I do something wrong?” he asked the crew.<\/p>\n

Emmett \u2014 who’s accused in the piece of offering actresses work in exchange for sex, among other things (he denied the denied) \u2014 reportedly called his then-fianc\u00e9e, reality star Lala Kent, and cried: “It’s just so sad. Bruce can’ t remember any of his lines. He doesn’t know where he is.”<\/p>\n

In the story, Emmett’s rep denied he was aware “of any decline in Mr. Willis’s health” and denied the conversation with Kent. Emmett went on to make five more films with Willis over the next 15 months<\/p>\n

Alicia Haverland, a prop master on Midnight in the Switchgrass<\/em>which came out in June 2021, told the outlet that Willis’s health struggles were an open secret.<\/p>\n

“Our stunt coordinator mentioned he was struggling,” Haverland said. “Our first AD saw he was struggling. You would have to be blind to not see him struggling.”<\/p>\n