The one actor who refused to work with "greedy" Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis was called out for wanting the maximum amount of money for the minimum amount of work, which cost him a lucrative role.
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Film » Cutting Room Floor
Wed 22 January 2025 15:15, UK
For years, Bruce Willis was one of the easiest targets of ridicule and scorn in Hollywood, with his detractors openly questioning why an actor who’d spent years as one of the most bankable and highest-paid action heroes in the industry had reduced themselves to the VOD doldrums.
From the outside looking in, it was a fair question. After all, Willis appeared in 19 movies that were released between March 2021 and December 2022 alone, none of which saw the inside of a cinema. In fact, of the 38 films he was credited with from 2015 onwards, only five of them got a theatrical run.
Of those four, Rock the Kasbah, the Death Wish remake, and Motherless Brooklyn bombed, his contributions to the Lego Movie sequel amounted to nothing more than a voice cameo, with M Night Shyamalan’s Glass the one hit among a sea of misses. However, the latter years of Willis’ career were reappraised in an instant when he was diagnosed with aphasia and, subsequently, dementia.
Instead of being a jobbing A-lister powering through as many paycheque gigs as possible, Willis was instead an actor who knew they were on borrowed time and sought to earn as much money as possible to financially safeguard his and his family’s future when his livelihood was taken away from him. It’s a tragic situation which left Sylvester Stallone stricken with regret.
The Die Hard icon had made a cameo appearance in The Expendables to share the screen with Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger for the first time, and the trio reunited in the follow-up. When the time came to shoot the third entry in the franchise, Willis was offered $3 million to spend four days on set. Not happy with the terms, he demanded a million dollars per day instead, which led to him being dropped from the ensemble and replaced by Harrison Ford.
Celebrating the addition of another legend to the Expendables roster, Stallone was hardly subtle in celebrating Willis’ exit, stating how being “greedy and lazy” is a “sure formula for career failure.” Of course, the erstwhile John McClane had been tarred with the difficult brush several times over for butting heads with co-stars and filmmakers, but the Rambo and Rocky figurehead wasn’t going to hold a grudge.
Following the news of Willis’ decision to step away from acting for medical reasons, it was clear their previous disagreement was water under the bridge. “Bruce is going through some really, really difficult times,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “So he’s been sort of incommunicado. That kills me. It’s so sad.”
They may have fallen out when Willis’ extravagant salary request ruled him out of The Expendables 3, but Stallone viewed him as a friend first and foremost, even after kicking him out of the cast.
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