A mellowing Bruce Willis dishes on Demi, ‘Die Hard’
Yippee-ki-yay: Die Hard’s John McClane is back June 27. And after 12 years, Bruce Willis’ McClane is showing his, ahem, maturity.
The actor, 52, tells the next Vanity Fair: “A lot of the physical stuff that they had me doing was still, let’s say, low-tech. I don’t bounce as well off the concrete floors as I used to. Ö I’m glad I didn’t wait a couple more years to do this.”
A lot has happened to Willis since the last Die Hard. After 11 years of marriage and three children (daughters Rumer, 18, Scout, 15, and Talullah, 13), he and Demi Moore split up in 1998 and were divorced in 2000. Moore married Ashton Kutcher in 2005, and Willis was among the wedding guests.
Willis refers to the Moore-Kutchers as his “extended family,” according to Vanity Fair, which has photos of the group on vacation in Turks and Caicos, where he has a home. “It’s hard for people to understand,” he says, “but we go on holidays together. We still raise our kids together. Ö Demi is the mother of my children and Ashton is the stepfather of my children. I’m thrilled that Ashton turned out to be such a great guy. I love Demi, and I know she loves me.”
As for Willis, no serious girlfriend has emerged, though there have been plenty of tabloid reports. He doesn’t feel the need to address gossip these days because “they’re not writing about guys my age much anymore, unless I do something naughty. They’re writing about the kids. That’s what drives pop culture now. Anything goes, to the point when if it’s O.K. for young pop stars or film stars to show photos of their naked vaginas in a magazine, then it’s over, man. It’s the (expletive) Fall of Rome.”
The June issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday and nationwide May 8.
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