It’s quite an exciting time for Bruce Willis, after all, the latest, long-anticipated Die Hard film comes out this week. Willis has been doing the publicity rounds (including an awkward The One Show appearance) and now he’s on the cover of the American GQ.
The veteran actor discusses a whole range of things with the magazine, including why he’s no longer sober (“I had been sober [for a while]. But once I realized that I wasn’t gonna run myself off the pier of life with alcohol, drinking vodka out of the bottle every day… I have wine now, mostly when I eat.”), how old he was when JFK died (“Eight or 9? My sister and two brothers and I walked around the house, reenacting the funeral procession. We had a wagon and some blankets. What else are you supposed to do? I didn’t really know what had happened, just that the grown-ups were crying.”), as well as looking back at the lives of the Hollywood stars before him.
He believes it may help him with his own future. He says: “To keep it looking lifelike. In the past few months, I’ve read a lot about Old Hollywood—Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden. Every story is that everyone was struggling. Everyone was flailing wildly. And it’s kind of reassuring, because if you only see the performance, it’s easy to associate that person with their work. Cary Grant was referring to himself as “Cary Grant the actor. That’s not me.” He would make a big difference between those two things.”
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Posted by Andrew Burge.