Gena Rowlands
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Gena Rowlands’s life is imitating artwork in probably the most heart-wrenching method potential. The 2-time Oscar-nominated actress has dementia, her son, director Nick Cassavetes, shared in an interview with Leisure Weekly. Cassavetes directed Rowlands within the 2004 movie The Pocket book, wherein she performed Older Allie, a personality with dementia whose husband instructed her their love story to remind her of their life collectively. “I acquired my mother to play older Allie, and we spent a variety of time speaking about Alzheimer’s and desirous to be genuine with it, and now, for the final 5 years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” Cassavetes instructed EW. “She’s in full dementia. And it’s so loopy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us.” Rowlands’s mom, Girl Rowlands, additionally had dementia. Rowlands acquired an honorary Oscar in 2015 and, alongside her husband, John Cassavetes, is thought to be one of many nice pioneers of impartial movie. “Everybody stated it have to be exhausting to work in your son,” she stated in 2015 of her time on The Pocket book. “I assume while you really feel cherished, every part is straightforward.”
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