Arnold Schwarzenegger Honors Bruce Willis' Legacy: Action Heroes 'Never Really Retire,' 'They Reload'
etonline.comArnold Schwarzenegger is honoring Bruce Willis as only a fellow action icon can. The star was asked about Willis' retirement in a recent interview and offered a touching response. «I think that he's fantastic,» Schwarzenegger told of his co-star in . «He was, always for years and years, is a huge, huge star.
And I think that he will always be remembered as a great, great star. And a kind man. I understand that under his circumstances, health-wise, that he had to retire.
But in general, you know, we never really retire. Action heroes, they reload.»Willis, 68, stepped away from the spotlight last year amid a heartbreaking battle with aphasia, which his family said at the time was «impacting his cognitive abilities.» In February, the actor's family shared that his condition has progressed to frontotemporal dementia, also known as FTD.
In a joint statement (via the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration organization) they called it «a cruel disease.»«As a family, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for the outpouring of love and compassion for Bruce over the past ten months,» the statement read.
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