Two directors confide in the state of Bruce Willis during filming

Long before the announcement of Bruce Willis' retirement after his aphasia diagnosis, several directors had realized that there was a problem.

An article from the

sheds light on the cognitive shortcomings, which appeared more and more clear during the final shoots of the actor, who has chained low-budget productions in recent years, with roles more truly up to par. his superstar aura.

"After the first day of working with Bruce, I had a front row seat to see him, and I understood that there was a bigger issue here and why I had been asked to shorten his lines," says Mike Burns, who directed Bruce Willis on the film

(a nanar released on VOD last year).

The filmmaker specifies that he had to condense 25 pages of dialogue into a single day of shooting.

When he was promised that Bruce Willis was better and offered to shoot a second film with the star of

, Mike Burns accepted.

And he soon regretted it.

“I didn't think he was better;

I thought he was even worse.

After I finished, I said, "I've had enough. I won't do any more Bruce Willis movies."

I am relieved that he is taking time off to rest,” he explained.

happy to be there

Same concerns on the side of Jesse V. Johnson, who directed

last year.

During filming, the filmmaker ended up finding out about Bruce Willis' state of mind (and cognitive) from the actor's agents, so much did he not recognize him.

“They said he was happy to be there, but that it would be better if we could finish filming him before lunch and let him go earlier,” he recalled, adding that the star even launched to two technicians from the film “I know why you are here, and I know why you are here, but why am I here?

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Over the last three years, Bruce Willis has made 21 films (with fees not exceeding $2 million most of the time, as indicated by the

), as if he knew he had to chain projects to small budget before his career ended.

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