Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer’s illness, per an replace shared by her son, actor and director Nick Cassavetes in a latest interview with Leisure Weekly. Cassavetes, directed 2004 romance movie “The Pocket book,” casting Rowlands as a personality with dementia.
“I received my mother to play older Allie, and we spent quite a lot of time speaking about Alzheimer’s and eager to be genuine with it, and now, for the final 5 years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” Cassavetes advised the outlet. “She’s in full dementia. And it’s so loopy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us.”
Within the film, which was tailored by the from the 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel of the identical identify, Rowlands starred because the older model of Rachel McAdams’ Allie alongside the late James Garner and Ryan Gosling, who portrayed the older and youthful model of Noah Calhoun.
Rowlands, a four-time Emmy winner and two-time Golden Globe winner, was twice nominated for the Academy Award for greatest actress in her movies “A Girl Beneath the Affect” (1974) and “Gloria” (1980). She acquired an honorary Oscar in 2015.