Bruce Willis, who has finished his career, did a rare trick that Finns remember

Bruce Willis in his breakthrough role as John McClanen in Die Hard. AOP

Actor Bruce Willis, 67, has to end his career due to aphasia. Aphasia means difficulty understanding or producing spoken and written language, sometimes both.

Willis’ career is full of hit movies, but he became exceptionally familiar to us Finns as early as the mid-80s, when he got into our living rooms almost every week.

The Rogue Hooks for Two was a crime-focused drama comedy in which Willis ’co-actor was Cybill Shepherd. The series was wonderful! It occasionally had clumsy plot twists, chemistry between the main actors, and huge shoulder pads. So sheer barracks!

The series was made between 1985 and 1989 and was hugely popular. The villain hooks for two lifted Willis to star and opened up a career in the film world for him, which was certainly not the norm. It was exceptional.

Willis in the series was pretty much the same as in the later hit movies. He played music, told funny funny stuff, and acted well enough.

That was enough. Willis made an impressive career on the big screen. Willis ’breakthrough was the best-ever action movie Die Hard, entertaining from generation to generation.

After that, a tremendous career opened. Willis certainly wasn’t a character actor, but he had the charisma that appeals to movie viewers, a trait that many contemporary actors lack.

Willis ’merit list is a handsome read; Die Hard and its sequels, Hello, Who’s Talking, The Fifth Element – The Missing Sense, The Sixth Monkey, 12 Monkeys, Pulp Fiction – Stories of Violence, Sin City, The Expitabels and so on. The list is really long.

In the Sixth Sense, Willis’ role is different from his typical roles in action movies. Willis was vulnerable, empathetic, even sensitive.

Willis was never nominated for an Oscar, maybe he would have been in the old days. Unfortunately, we will never know this at the end of our careers.