Directors in the recent Bruce Willis films have said that his struggle with aphasia was apparent during shoots.
This information was released by Entertainment Weekly on Friday.
Director Mike Burns, who worked with Willis on the 2021 film Out of Death, told the Los Angeles Times that he had to condense all of the actor's material down to one day of filming.
"After the first day of working with Bruce, I could see it firsthand and I realized that there was a bigger issue at stake here and why I had been asked to shorten his lines," Burns said.
Burns said he was glad the actor was taking time off as his condition was worsening when they worked together again in the film due release, The Wrong Place.
"It was clear that he was not the Bruce I remembered," Jesse V. Johnson, who recently directed Willis on White Elephant, said.
Johnson worked with Willis decades before as a stuntman.
He too decided not to make another movie with Willis after that experience.
On Wednesday, Willis' family announced that he will be stepping away from his career.
Aphasia is a condition that impedes one's ability to speak and write.
The news was broken via Instagram in a post that said that the condition is impacting his cognitive abilities.
