Bruce Willis retires from acting

I wonder does this go all they way back to when Willis considered challeneging Apple for the right to leave his digital content to his daughters.

If I rememeber rightly he said at the time he was contemplating his death and what what he would leave his family.

That also reminds he had a couple of hit songs

Doubling down on being an asshole is such a classy move.

Luckily his acting career has prepared him for the ne plus ultra of that...

Just sell a couple of mansions. Nah he’s a multi millionaire… 3 years from his 70th birthday, covid and shít…

retiring would be precisely what I’d be doing too…

Sad to hear about Bruce. Most recent film of his I've seen is probably Red so I'm not aware of anything with him after that.

Die Hard is probably one of my most favorite films, I watch it every Christmas without fail and never get fed up with it. Enjoyed some of his other stuff such as Mercury Rising, Tears of the Sun, Hostage and The Kid.

He also plays a good villian as he did in The Siege and in one of the early episodes of Miami Vice as a weapon buyer/wife beater.

Little fun fact for Die hard and Lethal Weapon fans. Bruce and Mel used the same prop Beretta 92f pistol in both original movies.

I read about this morning.

I had assumed that all the “straight to video” movies (most of which he isn’t even billed as the lead) he has been doing was because of some finance or tax trouble.

If that wasn’t the situation and he has no money problems then I don’t understand the need to do these movies - isn’t he a millionaire? That isn’t a criticism or snark about the man - I’m just trying to figure out why he threw himself into those movies.

Anyway it is sad news. He made some great movie. I thought aphasia was only something that could happen after a stroke.

Yeah I think rather than a scam, they're always just hoping for that one that becomes a cult hit.

As for why Bruce would continue trying to make money when he's already rich, no one can really say how much money he has, how much his care is going to cost into the future, plus its not just about money for him but also for his family. Even if he made 2m per movie for his last 10 movies, that's 20m. That's nothing to be sniffed at even if he's already rich.

If I knew I was leaving behind 100m to my family and I had a chance to earn another 20m to leave behind too, I'd do it. Regardless of how it may be seen to tarnish his acting legacy or how many Razzies they give him, I can't fault him for that.

Though if he has been cognitively impaired and they had him on film sets using weapons with blanks... that's not fantastic....

For the most part it'd definitely be a stunt double. But there was a report of Bruce himself accidentally firing a gun with a blank at the wrong time while in a scene with an actress.

I read couple of months ago about Willis and the word was that he found it hard to say any lines so often he relied on cue cards just off camera Saturday Night Live style. Reports from crew members he worked with on his recent movies. All just rumors tho.

I thought it was just Willis not caring. Like giving any old performance for a paycheck in a bum b movie. But reports were right. Just shows you that some things do drip down like Kevin Spacey being gay. Will Smith in an open marriage. Some rumors do be true.

Sad about Bruce tho. You just never know how your health will pan out.

Ah be fair die hard 2 is a good movie. Sure, 1 and 3 are better than it but its not that bad.

Dh2 is more a die hard movie than 5. I would even say its more of a die hard movie than 4.

Like, die hard 4 isn't a bad movie. But Willis could have been playing John Smith and it would have been the same movie.