94-year-old actress Gena Rowlands suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and loses consciousness caused by the disease. Exactly 20 years ago, the artist played the role of Ellie Hamilton, who also suffered from this disease, in the movie The Notebook. Director son Nick Cassavetes talked about this in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
“I once asked my mother to play the eldest Ellie. Afterwards we talked a lot about Alzheimer’s disease, we wanted to be completely honest with him. She has been struggling with this disease for the last five years. She is completely crazy now. What we have experienced so far is true madness. After all, at first he experienced everything on the big screen, now he is a part of reality,” said the director.
Let us also remind you that the movie “Notebook” was released exactly 20 years ago. The actress’s character suffered from dementia – she lived in a nursing home where her husband cared for her. Every day she re-read Ellie’s diary, in which she wrote the story of their love.
Source: People Talk
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