Don Johnson has been associates with Bruce Willis for many years and reminisced concerning the early days of their friendship amid the star’s dementia analysis.
“Bruce and I have been associates when he was a bartender at Cafe Central and I’d go in there and sit with Bruce,” the Dr. Odyssey star mentioned on Good Morning America. “I didn’t drink on the time, however Bruce was such a superb storyteller, and he’d inform me about all of the trials and tribulations of coping with the drunks and the actors. And I bought to be pleasant with him. I mentioned, ‘You’d be superior [as an actor].’”
Johnson took it upon himself to name the casting director for Miami Vice and recommend Willis to audition. “I mentioned, ‘Bonnie, there’s a man that’s a bartender at Cafe Central.’ She mentioned, ‘I do know, there’s 5,000 of them.’ I mentioned, ‘No, this man is attention-grabbing and he’s particular. Convey him in and skim him.’ And he did and we solid him in Miami Vice.”
The actor mentioned he “might simply inform” that Willis had one thing particular. “I might sit with a director and in 15 seconds I can say whether or not he has movie sense or he doesn’t,” Johnson defined. “You simply decide these issues up.”
In one other interview with Leisure Tonight, Johnson addressed Willis’ sickness. “We’re better of associates and he’s having somewhat little bit of a battle proper now and I take this second to ship him love,” he mentioned.
Willis retired from performing in 2022 after being recognized with aphasia. His household introduced the information in a joint assertion on the time (the Die Arduous star is married to Emma Heming-Willis and has 5 daughters, three of whom he shares with ex Demi Moore). In February 2023, the household revealed they’d obtained a extra particular analysis of frontotemporal dementia.
“You recognize, given the givens, he’s in a really steady place for the time being,” Moore revealed on CNN in February.