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Don Johnson ‘sends love’ to Bruce Willis: He’s having ‘a bit of a struggle right now’
the actor’s battle with dementia during a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight to promote the midseason debut of his ABC series “Doctor Odyssey.”“We’re best of friends and he’s having a little bit of a struggle right now, and I take this moment to send him love,” Johnson shared, speaking of the “Die Hard” star.Willis’ family revealed in February 2023 that the actor, who will celebrate his 70th birthday on March 19, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia following a previous aphasia diagnosis in 2022.In the same interview, the “Rebel Ridge” actor also looked back on helping Willis land his first TV role — on Johnson’s series “Miami Vice” — before Willis’ rise to fame on “Moonlighting,” opposite Cybill Shepherd.“It was his first episodic TV, before ‘Moonlighting,'” Johnson noted, adding that it felt like a full-circle moment seeing Willis’ daughter, Rumer Willis, appear on “Doctor Odyssey.”“And I knew him from New York, and I’d hang out with him and he was funny,” he continued about the action star.Johnson explained how he pushed for Willis to be considered for a role on “Miami Vice,” saying, “So I called our casting director on ‘Miami Vice’ and I said, ‘You know, there’s a guy over there and I think he’s a struggling actor, and you should bring him in and read him because he’s really funny and I think he’d be good.'”The casting director brought Willis in for an audition, and Johnson recalled, “She brought him in and she read him and she cast him for the wife-beater,” joking that he didn’t have to stick his neck out “that far” given Willis’ obvious talent.“My instincts were pretty good,” Johnson added.Rumer, 36, provided an update on her father’s health recently in a February 3 appearance on the UK talk show
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK or U.K.) or Britain, is a sovereign country located off the north­western coast of the European mainland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north­eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland. Otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south and the Celtic Sea to the southwest, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish Sea separates Great Britain and Ireland. The total area of the United Kingdom is 94,000 square miles (240,000 km2).

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