On the set of ‘White Elephant’ one crew member told the Los Angeles Times: “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.”
Director Jesse V. Johnson expressed concern, saying: “it was clear that he was not the Bruce I remembered.”
Mr Johnson approached Willis’ team and asked about his condition.
“They stated that he was happy to be there, but that it would be best if we could finish shooting him by lunch and let him go early,” Mr Johnson recalled of the conversation.
In another film, “Out of Death”, director Mike Burns wrote in an email to the screenwriter: “It looks like we need to knock down Bruce’s page count by about 5 pages. We also need to abbreviate his dialogue a bit so that there are no monologues, etc.”
Most action scenes, particularly those that involved choreographed gunfire, were filmed using a body double as a substitute for Willis, it has been claimed.
