The Razzie Awards kept it classy as always in apologising to Bruce Willis after the terrible news broke about his aphasia diagnosis.
As the Die Hard legend’s family revealed on Wednesday, March 30th, Willis has been diagnosed with the medical condition in which a person loses the ability to speak or communicate. As a result, he’ll now be taking a much-needed step back from acting.
“To Bruce’s amazing supporters, as a family we wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities,” his family shared in a statement. “As a result of this and with much consideration Bruce is stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him.”
The Willis news prompted the Razzie Awards to respond as only they could. At last year’s 42nd Golden Raspberry Awards, an entirely new category was created in order to recognise Bruce Willis and Bruce Willis alone: titled “Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movie”, the category contained all eight films that the actor starred in last year (the sci-fi action film Cosmic Sin ultimately triumphed).
After the revelation about Willis’ deteriorating health, the official Razzies Twitter account made a statement. “The Razzies are truly sorry for #BruceWillis diagnosed condition. Perhaps this explains why he wanted to go out with a bang in 2021. Our best wishes to Bruce and family,” the tweet said.
Read the room, Razzies! Their untimely response drew criticism in the comments. “You should retire the category and also your whole thing because it’s way more cringe than any of the movies you’re dunking on,” someone wrote. “I hope you’ll show a modicum of decency (your ceremony has so few) by deleting its category,” someone else demanded. “1) whose job was it to tweet this and 2) are they still employed,” asked another person incredulously.
Not that literal John McClane probably gives a toss what a disparaging parody awards show says.
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