Walter Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis speaks about his own popularity without hesitation in expressions. There are a couple of countries left on Earth where the actor, by his own admission, does not need to hide behind dark glasses and a hat. In his youth, the Hollywood star hoped to achieve something in life in the interval from 40 to 60 years. And the hopes were justified.

Willis does not regret the committed deeds, because life is not like a movie, there are no takes there, and "what you regret now leads to something great in the future." The actor is especially happy that he no longer has to run in front of the camera with weapons in his hands, portraying the hero.

"Die Hard" Walter Bruce Willis was born in March 1955 in West Germany, in the city of Idar-Oberstein. Father David Willis was a civilian employee in an American military unit, American by birth. Mother is German, housewife.

In addition to Bruce, three younger children grew up in the family. After finishing his father's service in the Armed Forces, the family returned to Penns Grove (New Jersey, USA) in 1957.

Bruce Willis stuttered badly as a child. The excitement literally made the boy speechless. To overcome this annoying defect, Willis went to school drama club. There he realized that he liked performing in front of a large audience. The stuttering is gone. Here Bruce felt the first thrill of power over the audience. The first roles of the future action hero played on the stage of a school drama club in amateur productions of Shakespeare and Williams.

After leaving school, Willis entered Montclair State University, where he also played in a student theater group. Then - on the off-Broadway stage in New York, for which he dropped out.

Bruce Willis's acting talent was noticed not on the stage, but at the counter of the popular New York bar "Centrale", where the artistic bohemia spent time. Bruce Willis rode around the bar on roller skates and had a frankly exotic look: a torn T-shirt, pants as wide as a parachute, and a colored headband. A cheerful bartender constantly hummed something, joked or played the accordion.

The 183cm guy played his first "role" in front of the camera in an advertisement for Levi's jeans. The creative biography of Bruce Willis began with cameo roles in little-known theaters and television productions. But he did not lose heart and tirelessly attended all kinds of auditions and auditions, without refusing to shoot in advertising.

Bruce Willis enjoyed great success after appearing on the Moonlight Detective Agency. The project has been nominated for an Emmy award in 16 categories, including Best Actor. The actor became a comedian. Only in 1988, when Bruce starred in the legendary "Die Hard", the artist was seen in a different light. Now the image of the invincible savior of the world is glued to it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Gere, and Sylvester Stallone were candidates for the role of John McClane in Die Hard. However, the producers chose Willis as the last guest.

This film brought the actor deafening fame and many new roles, usually of the same type. Now Willis appeared on the screen as a courageous lone hero, saving lives. Apart from the sequels to Die Hard, Bruce played similar screen images in the films The Fifth Element, Mercury in Danger, Strike Distance.

To break the mold and break his tough guy stereotype, Willis starred in Out of Town, directed by acclaimed director Norman Jewison. Here Bruce is no longer "die hard" John McClain, but a much-suffering Vietnam War veteran. Critics approved: psychologically, the actor's image was quite successful. Soon, in the film "Bonfire of Ambition" viewers saw another unusual Willis - an inventive reporter for a popular newspaper.

In the tragicomedy A Story of Us (1999), Willis showed himself in all its glory as a dramatic actor, starring with the inimitable Michelle Pfeiffer. The stellar acting duo brought to life the story of a married couple who had a crisis after 15 years of marriage.

Though rare, Willis had to play not only good guys. One of the most striking was the role of a killer named Jackal in the film of the same name (1997). With his brilliant performance, Willis, according to many critics, eclipsed the opponent from the good side, which was performed by Richard Gere. And the famous grin even made me empathize with the bloodthirsty character.

And yet, fans of Willis' talent prefer to see their favorite in the role of a hero without fear or reproach. Like in Hudson Hawk, where Willis hovers on a hang glider without stunt doubles and combined filming, Armageddon, where his hero saves planet Earth, in The Fifth Element, where Bruce prevents a catastrophe of a universal scale. In other images, the artist is perceived with difficulty. So, the comedy thriller "Hudson Hawk", where the actor departs from the fan-favorite image of a furious action movie, failed at the box office.

But the critics disagreed with the audience: they believe that the best roles of the artist were minor roles in Pulp Fiction "by Quentin Tarantino and" There are no fools "by Paul Newman.

Willis has shown himself not only in action films, comedies and dramas, but also in psychological films. The thriller The Sixth Sense (1999) became one of the highest grossing films in American history. This tape brought the artist a surge in popularity and an enviable fee of $ 100 million. Especially for the film "The Sixth Sense" the actor, left-handed in life, had to relearn in order to write in the frame with his right hand.

During the filming of The Perfect Stranger, the actor unexpectedly refused to star in bed with the Oscar-winning Halle Berry. Willis motivated this by the fact that next to Berry he would look stupid. As a result, the actors had to be filmed separately, and the film, released in 2007, was the first in which computer technology was used to process a bed scene.

In the crime thriller "Hostage" Bruce was accompanied by his daughter Rumer Glenn. The project "Double KOPets" was remembered by the performer of the leading role of a policeman because, unlike films where partners are representatives of different nationalities, this comedy did not focus on the racial identity of the characters. In addition, the film parodied "Die Hard", and these scenes were included at the insistence of Willis. The actor noticed that he earned the right to laugh at himself.

In 2013, Bruce Willis joined the cast of the adventure film Cobra Toss 2. The actor played the role of an army general helping the superheroes of the secret Cobra unit fight the GI Joe squad.

In the thriller "Wake" Bruce was entrusted with the role of a criminal who came to his brother's funeral. And this time the hero would have to save the inhabitants of his hometown, but the shooting was stopped a week after the start. The reason is the lack of funding. In order not to risk parallel projects, the actor refused to further participate in the film.

The action fantasy thriller "Welcome to Paradise" ("Anger") takes place in the future, in a city inhabited by androids. Willis's character protects humanity from a robot intent on taking revenge on people for bullying.

In the crime thriller "Raiders" Bruce appeared as the owner of a network of banks that were attacked. The thieves donate the loot to charity. The FBI, investigating crimes, is inclined to think that this is a kind of punishment for a banker who does business in a dishonest manner.

The movie star's partner in the comedy "His Dog Business" was a Jack Russell Terrier dog. Willis has reincarnated as the owner of the dog, a private detective who dreams of peace. When a pet is kidnapped, Bruce's hero has to follow the instructions of the criminals.

The horror movie "Split" introduced the already familiar to the audience David Dunn, a character from the thriller "Invincible", released in 2000. True, in "Split" the main character, in whose minds there are 23 personalities, was played by James McAvoy. The new, 24th, personality makes the man kidnap and kill women.

At the end of the picture, visitors to the bar compare the killer with a terrorist nicknamed Mister Glass. Bruce appears for a moment, thus becoming the link between the two films. And the director Night Shyamalan added intrigue, saying that the heroes of the films will face each other in a new project.

The biography of Bruce Willis also contains many other pages not related to cinema. At 60, he made his Broadway debut in Misery, based on Stephen King's book.

Earlier he tried to prove himself as a businessman. The actor invested part of a considerable capital in the restaurant business, becoming a co-owner of the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain. But in October 1999, Willis, along with business partners, declared Planet Hollywood bankrupt. There are a dozen restaurants left around the world.

In the European branches of "Planet" the actor sometimes arranges small recitals with the group "Accelerators", playing the blues. By the way, Willis released 2 albums in the classic country style in the 80s.

Bruce Willis's personal life is not a subject for public discussion. So the actor himself thinks. This is probably why the fashionable family mansion in Hollywood is surrounded by a 6-foot-high wall, which, however, does not prevent the press from savoring the details of the star's life a lot and often.

Bruce Willis met Demi Moore's first wife while filming the series Moonlight Detective Agency. Demi was then an aspiring actress, who played bit parts in low-budget films. However, like the future husband. And although Bruce at this time was credited with an affair with Sybill Shepard, in fact it was a publicity stunt designed to promote the series. A real relationship and a whirlwind romance developed behind the set between Bruce and Demi Moore.

In November 1987, the couple legalized their relationship. Soon they had 3 daughters - Rumer, Scout and Talulah Bel. But the family life, which was considered exemplary, suddenly ended: in 1998, the couple announced their breakup, and in October 2000, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore divorced.

Demi married Ashton Kutcher, and Bruce married actress and model Emma Heming. The chosen one, in whose veins Indian and British blood flows, was included in the list of the 100 sexiest women on the planet. Moreover, the actor and his new wife were also not at all embarrassed by the significant age difference.

Bruce and Emma have 2 daughters growing up: Mabel Rae and Evelyn Penn. The family lives in New York, in an apartment near Central Park.

Actor and producer Eli Roth, familiar to viewers from the films "Mobile" and "Inglourious Basterds", invited Willis to play the lead role in the remake of the 1974 film "Death Wish." Bruce played an angry surgeon obsessed with revenge for the death of his wife and daughter. The police, who did not pay due attention to the crime, find in the person of a man the ruler of justice, who in broad daylight shoots criminals on the street.

In the crime drama Acts of Violence, Willis, on the contrary, tried on the uniform of a police officer investigating a trafficking case. In the military film of the Chinese filmmakers "Bombing" ("Unbreakable Spirit"), the actor starred in the company of Fan Bingbing, Adrian Brody and daughter Rumer.

The premiere of the tape with a budget of $ 100 million, which tells about the confrontation between Japan and China on the eve of World War II, was planned for the fall of 2018. But the issuance of a rental license was called into question due to financial fraud. According to rumors, Bingbing indicated a significantly reduced fee in the tax return, and the state punished the actress with a fine of $ 130 million. Therefore, the girl's photo disappeared from the press.

In 2019, the filmography of the Hollywood star will be replenished with the long-awaited sequel to the films about David Dunn. The thriller "Glass" features Samuel L. Jackson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson.

1988 - "Die Hard" 1990 - "Die Hard 2" 1992 - "Death Becomes Her" 1994 - "Pulp Fiction" 1995 - "Die Hard 3" 1997 - "The Fifth Element" 1998 - "Armageddon" 2000 - "Nine Yards "2003 -" Ten Yards "2007 -" The Perfect Stranger "2007 -" Die Hard 4.0 "2010 -" RED "2013 -" Die Hard 5 "2016 -" His Dog Business "2017 -" Death Wish "2018 -" Acts of Violence "

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