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I wonder, is there anyone who would have stood under the spell of Bruce Willis? Unlikely. This actor can gain weight, grow old, but his famous look and smile will remain the same and act the same magnetically. The same can be said of his firm sense of humor.
His career and popularity quickly rushed up after the release of the film "Die Hard". This action movie with his incredible stunts, explosions, enchanting dialogue and jokes and steep hero Bruce became a special mark of the actor.
Most critics believe that such an amazing actor with charisma and there is unlikely to be. But about his charisma it is known to all, and in fact Die Hard in the archives there is still a lot of interesting things.
1. Walter Bruce Willis was born on 19 March, 1955 in Idar-Oberstein (then West Germany) at the US military base.
2. As a child, Bruce strongly hinted at excitement. Participation in school plays helped him overcome the illness, and he now remembers him only with a smile.
3. Bruce was president of the student council and school drama club. "Dearie school" - so named Bruce classmates.
4. In 2003, Bruce himself has organized a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the end of a school for 300 graduates in 1973. He took off his hotel "Trump Plaza" in Atlantic City and all drinks with meals and entertainment Bruce paid out of pocket cost to the actor in the 30 thousand dollars.
5. At 14 Bruce pierced left ear.
6. After school, Willis worked at a chemical plant "Du Pont". After he moonlighted as a bodyguard, a truck driver, a bartender and waiter. And in his spare time he played with the band "Loose Goose", playing the harmonica.
7. College Montclair Bruce played in a student production of the play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." But do not finish my studies, he dropped out of college and moved to New York and began again to earn a bartender.
8. At the bar, where he worked, Bruce was given the nickname Bruno. And in 1986 he released a solo platinum album "The Return of Bruno". In 1988, he had a starring role in the movie Bruno Radolini "The Return of Bruno". In 1996 Bruce voiced the title role in the animated film "Bruno the Kid».
9. In 1987, in August, at the premiere of "shadowing" Bruce meets his future wife - Demi Moore. The main role in this film played the groom Demi - Emilio Estevez. Bruce and Demi began to meet almost every day. And on November 21 the same year they were married in Las Vegas. Their marriage was considered exemplary, and yet 11 years later, one of the most famous and beautiful Hollywood couple announced their divorce. But the reason for their separation Bruce and Demi secret until now.
10. In 30 years, Bruce Willis started to go bald. He was treated in a Swiss clinic, after over him once joked Jack Nicholson, saying: "My friend, let your head will soon become like a big egg." For the huge amount of money to Bruce implanted hair in balding place, but still after some time acquired locks and began to drop. After that, it was decided to shave bald.
11. Bruce's film debut came in 1980 in the film "The first deadly sin" when the diner was leaving the main character played by Frank Sinatra, he is at this moment to enter. In the credits of Bruce did not specify.
12. Bruce's first major role (and only the third in a row) was the role of David Edison in the popular TV series "The Agency" Moonlight "(1985-1989), which is everything else brought him a good income: for the series, he received 50 thousand. dollars. And Willis Cybill Shepherd even had a brief affair. But as his fame grew, Cybill more angry with him, and at the end of the show their relationship looked like hatred. After the shooting Willis sworn never to appear in any series.
13. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Richard Gere auditioned for the role of John MacLane in the film "Die Hard". Bruce producers invited to audition last and took. And do not regret it: more than half of the jokes in the film, he came up with it. It is so pleasant to the producers that in the next "Die Hard" Bruce was given the freedom to improvise much soul anywhere.
14. For the role in "Die Hard" Bruce Willis was huge by the standards of that time fee - $ 5 million. Before him, such amounts are not paid any more to the actor. For "Die Hard 2" (1990) Bruce got 7, 5 million, and for the "Die Hard 3" (1995) - 15 million.
15. Bruce Willis joined the "Club of 20 million" - is an informal name for the group of actors who get behind the film is not less than 20 million dollars - until 1999, when she played the title role in the movie "The Sixth Sense"
16. The left-hander Bruce Willis. While in "The Sixth Sense" in one scene, he writes with his right hand for the convenience of the operator who was filming. To do this, the actor had to gain and a time to train.
17. Bruce all the time is the clock on the right hand dial down. This point can be seen in some of his films: "Die Hard," "Mercury Rising" and others.
18. Bruce Willis is very much wanted him in "The Whole Nine Yards" played by Matthew Perry. To this end, he called home every day to a few weeks, to offer this role, but Matthew was not at home. Finally, Bruce left a message: "I will cut off your legs, set fire to your house and make you crawl on fire with bloody stumps." This phrase is then entered into the script.
19. After the shooting, Matthew Bruce argued that if the "whole nine yards" at the box office takes first place in the first week of the show, then Bruce free to star in "Friends". As a result, Willis appeared in three episodes of "Friends", and although the fees for them, he still paid, Bruce all the money transferred to the charity fund. In addition, for a small role in "Friends" Willis won an "Emmy".
20. During the filming of one of the episodes of "The Whole Nine Yards 2" when the heroes Perry Willis and wake up together in the same bed after drinking, Bruce fun of Matthew, he went to bed naked. Perry was so scared, because it was not in the script that was afraid to ask Willis why he was naked. And the director liked it and decided to leave the scene in the film.
And it's all about him, and that's not all.
His career and popularity quickly rushed up after the release of the film "Die Hard". This action movie with his incredible stunts, explosions, enchanting dialogue and jokes and steep hero Bruce became a special mark of the actor.
Most critics believe that such an amazing actor with charisma and there is unlikely to be. But about his charisma it is known to all, and in fact Die Hard in the archives there is still a lot of interesting things.
1. Walter Bruce Willis was born on 19 March, 1955 in Idar-Oberstein (then West Germany) at the US military base.
2. As a child, Bruce strongly hinted at excitement. Participation in school plays helped him overcome the illness, and he now remembers him only with a smile.
3. Bruce was president of the student council and school drama club. "Dearie school" - so named Bruce classmates.
4. In 2003, Bruce himself has organized a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the end of a school for 300 graduates in 1973. He took off his hotel "Trump Plaza" in Atlantic City and all drinks with meals and entertainment Bruce paid out of pocket cost to the actor in the 30 thousand dollars.
5. At 14 Bruce pierced left ear.
6. After school, Willis worked at a chemical plant "Du Pont". After he moonlighted as a bodyguard, a truck driver, a bartender and waiter. And in his spare time he played with the band "Loose Goose", playing the harmonica.
7. College Montclair Bruce played in a student production of the play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." But do not finish my studies, he dropped out of college and moved to New York and began again to earn a bartender.
8. At the bar, where he worked, Bruce was given the nickname Bruno. And in 1986 he released a solo platinum album "The Return of Bruno". In 1988, he had a starring role in the movie Bruno Radolini "The Return of Bruno". In 1996 Bruce voiced the title role in the animated film "Bruno the Kid».
9. In 1987, in August, at the premiere of "shadowing" Bruce meets his future wife - Demi Moore. The main role in this film played the groom Demi - Emilio Estevez. Bruce and Demi began to meet almost every day. And on November 21 the same year they were married in Las Vegas. Their marriage was considered exemplary, and yet 11 years later, one of the most famous and beautiful Hollywood couple announced their divorce. But the reason for their separation Bruce and Demi secret until now.
10. In 30 years, Bruce Willis started to go bald. He was treated in a Swiss clinic, after over him once joked Jack Nicholson, saying: "My friend, let your head will soon become like a big egg." For the huge amount of money to Bruce implanted hair in balding place, but still after some time acquired locks and began to drop. After that, it was decided to shave bald.
11. Bruce's film debut came in 1980 in the film "The first deadly sin" when the diner was leaving the main character played by Frank Sinatra, he is at this moment to enter. In the credits of Bruce did not specify.
12. Bruce's first major role (and only the third in a row) was the role of David Edison in the popular TV series "The Agency" Moonlight "(1985-1989), which is everything else brought him a good income: for the series, he received 50 thousand. dollars. And Willis Cybill Shepherd even had a brief affair. But as his fame grew, Cybill more angry with him, and at the end of the show their relationship looked like hatred. After the shooting Willis sworn never to appear in any series.
13. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Richard Gere auditioned for the role of John MacLane in the film "Die Hard". Bruce producers invited to audition last and took. And do not regret it: more than half of the jokes in the film, he came up with it. It is so pleasant to the producers that in the next "Die Hard" Bruce was given the freedom to improvise much soul anywhere.
14. For the role in "Die Hard" Bruce Willis was huge by the standards of that time fee - $ 5 million. Before him, such amounts are not paid any more to the actor. For "Die Hard 2" (1990) Bruce got 7, 5 million, and for the "Die Hard 3" (1995) - 15 million.
15. Bruce Willis joined the "Club of 20 million" - is an informal name for the group of actors who get behind the film is not less than 20 million dollars - until 1999, when she played the title role in the movie "The Sixth Sense"
16. The left-hander Bruce Willis. While in "The Sixth Sense" in one scene, he writes with his right hand for the convenience of the operator who was filming. To do this, the actor had to gain and a time to train.
17. Bruce all the time is the clock on the right hand dial down. This point can be seen in some of his films: "Die Hard," "Mercury Rising" and others.
18. Bruce Willis is very much wanted him in "The Whole Nine Yards" played by Matthew Perry. To this end, he called home every day to a few weeks, to offer this role, but Matthew was not at home. Finally, Bruce left a message: "I will cut off your legs, set fire to your house and make you crawl on fire with bloody stumps." This phrase is then entered into the script.
19. After the shooting, Matthew Bruce argued that if the "whole nine yards" at the box office takes first place in the first week of the show, then Bruce free to star in "Friends". As a result, Willis appeared in three episodes of "Friends", and although the fees for them, he still paid, Bruce all the money transferred to the charity fund. In addition, for a small role in "Friends" Willis won an "Emmy".
20. During the filming of one of the episodes of "The Whole Nine Yards 2" when the heroes Perry Willis and wake up together in the same bed after drinking, Bruce fun of Matthew, he went to bed naked. Perry was so scared, because it was not in the script that was afraid to ask Willis why he was naked. And the director liked it and decided to leave the scene in the film.
And it's all about him, and that's not all.
