Rosanna Arquette says working with Bruce Willis, who suffers from dementia, was a “gentlemanly” experience.
The 64-year-old actress starred alongside 69-year-old Bruce, a father of five who retired from acting in 2022 because his brain disease aphasia affected his understanding of language, in “Pulp Fiction” in 1994 and six years later in “No Half Measures.”
She has now told People about her fond memories of working with the Die Hard star and the time when he was a bartender before his breakthrough role in the 1980s TV series The Model and the Snooper: “He’s just a nice, nice guy. I remember him better as the bartender (in New York City) that everyone went to, this cafe called Café Central, and that was the hangout.”
“He was the bartender just before he got ‘The Model and the Snooper.’
“|Everyone from (Robert) De Niro to (Martin) Scorsese (would come.)
“It was the real experience, so to speak.
“(Bruce) had that charm and he had the charisma.
“Then he got ‘The Model and the Snooper’ and that was it. He was a star.”
Rosanna played the wife of a drug dealer, Jody, in “Pulp Fiction,” while Bruce played the con-boxer Butch Coolidge, who betrays the gangster Marsellus Wallace, played by the now 64-year-old Ving Rhames.
The actress added that she is convinced that “Pulp Fiction” will stand the test of time 30 years after its release because the “screenplay is fantastic” and its creator Quentin Tarantino, 61, is “such a great writer.”
She added that the film had a “great cast” which included Eric Stoltz (62), John Travolta (70), Samuel L. Jackson (75), Uma Thurman (53), Tim Roth (62) and 67-year-old Amanda Plummer.
Rosanna said: “When we were making Pulp Fiction, we were just getting started, we were rehearsing, we were working with a great director, but we didn’t know how big it was going to be – but it really was.”
Although Rosanna has not had regular contact with Quentin since then, she said she would “love” to work with the director again.