Bruce Willis’s Minimalist Star Power
Long before aphasia affected his performances, Willis brought a misunderstood effortlessness to his best movie roles.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/bruce-williss-minimalist-star-power
Reviewing “Hard Kill,” a 2020 movie starring Willis as a tech C.E.O. whose daughter gets kidnapped, a critic for the Guardian described him as occupying “that grey area between zero fuss and not much effort.” This and other similarly disparaging assessments now exist in their own gray area, where public opinion of an actor’s craft meets public knowledge of his extenuating circumstances