Terry Gilliam directed Bruce Willis in the 1995 sci-fi thriller “12 Monkeys”, but the director (and, let’s not forget, founding member of Monty Python) is admitting in a new interview that he was initially reluctant to cast the actor.
The reason, he explained in a new oral history of “12 Monkeys” for Inverse, was because he felt Willis’ mouth resembled a somewhat unfortunate part of the human anatomy. “I had never been a great fan of Bruce’s before, but I liked talking to him and I thought, ‘Okay, this guy’s smart, he’s funny,’” said Gilliam.
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