Hollywood actor Bruce Willis deservedly enjoys great popularity, although in recent times he has not often appeared on the screen. Now he has come to the age when the actors begin to play other roles, different from those that were in his youth. However, it is imprinted on many films. Having given the world a dozen charismatic and memorable characters, this actor will remain in the memory of the audience even after his career ends.
Like many other Hollywood celebrities, the actor was not born in the United States. His parents moved from Germany to a new place of residence, when Bruce was still a child. As a child, Bruce Willis suffered from stuttering, which, of course, automatically meant that he would not be an actor. But he resolutely set out to overcome this defect, and for this purpose he enlisted in a theater group. It helped – after a long session the stuttering passed. At the time of participation in the theater group he was eight years old. At the age of 14 he pierced his left ear and hung a earring on it. Bruce Willis – Lefty. This fact can be seen in several films with his participation, where it is clear that he is doing some familiar actions with his left hand. Immediately after finishing his studies, he moved to New York with the intention of building an acting career. Being in search of his first roles, he worked as a bartender. Around those years, he earned from his friends the nickname “Bruno”.
Bruce Willis got his first role when a director went to the bar where he worked, who just needed an actor for the third plan, and this actor was supposed to play the bartender. Willis seemed to him charismatic, and the director offered this role to him. At the dawn of his career, he also starred in advertising, in particular, advertised jeans. Then he was not known to anyone. The first significant role of Bruce Willis was the role in the popular TV series “Detective Agency” Moonlight. For the role of the protagonist in the film “Die Hard”, he received a record fee for those times – $ 5 million. Before him, no actor had ever received so much money for one film. In Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, Bruce Willis appeared only for 800 thousand dollars, as he was eager to play in this film. By the way, initially he tried out for the role that Travolta eventually played.
The actor always wears a wristwatch on his right hand, turning it face down. Since the end of the 80s of the last century, the actor has declared that he was tired of the militants, and he does not want to act in them anymore. However, he successfully continues to do so. For his role in the catastrophe movie “Armageddon” Bruce Willis received an anti-prize for the worst male role. At the same time, the film was popular, so this anti-prize did not affect his career in general. He began losing hair at the age of 30. Having tried a lot of expensive procedures, trying to return the hair, he did not despair, and now he is waiting for the invention of new methods for returning hair to its rightful place. After filming “Moonlight,” Willis announced that he would never do a TV show again. And he did keep his word. For 2018, Bruce Willis was noted in 98 films. Somewhere he played significant roles, and somewhere episodic. He has four daughters. But no sons.
One of Bruce Willis hobbies is cooking. As he himself told the press, he learned to cook in culinary courses, which he attended to be able to cook deliciously for his children. When the US Army began a military operation in Iraq, Bruce Willis expressed a desire to take a direct part in it, but because of his age he was rejected by the draft board. Once the environmental service fined the actor for 21.5 thousand dollars for cleaning a part of a marshy pond near his house. In addition to the fine, he had to return the swamp to its place. After his first visit to Prague, Bruce Willis fell in love with the Czech capital so much that he bought a house there. In addition to acting, he also sings well. Blues lovers will certainly appreciate. Bruce Willis – a man of chance. His record card win was half a million dollars. Currently, the actor is gradually retraining as a producer. However, it continues to appear on the big screen.
