One scene near the trailer’s end depicts Bruce’s Solomon, covered in blood, ready to fire a machine gun.
After Willis’ aphasia diagnosis was made public, White Elephant director Jesse V Johnson told the LA Times: “It was clear that he was not the Bruce I remembered [from being a stuntman years ago]”.
As a result, it was requested that his scenes be finished by lunchtime so could be let go early. Tragically, the action star would ask crew members: “I know why you’re here, and I know why you’re here, but why am I here?”
One crew member recalled: “It was less of an annoyance and more like: ‘How do we not make Bruce look bad?’ Someone would give him a line and he didn’t understand what it meant. He was just being puppeted.”
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