Cassavetes, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly printed Tuesday, mentioned Rowlands has had Alzheimer’s for 5 years. In the 2004 movie “The Notebook,” Cassavetes directed his mom, who performed the older model of the character performed by Rachel McAdams, as a girl with dementia.
“We spent a number 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 mentioned. “She’s in full dementia. And it is so loopy —we lived it, she acted it, and now it is on us.”
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A consultant for Rowlands confirmed that Cassavetes “speaks for the household.”
Rowlands, who acquired an honorary Oscar in 2015, made 10 movies together with her husband, John Cassavetes, together with 1974’s “A Woman Under the Influence” and 1980’s “Gloria.” She was nominated for an Oscar for each performances. She additionally received 4 Emmy awards. Her final credited efficiency was the 2014 comedy “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks.”
Rowlands’s mom, actor Lady Rowlands, additionally had Alzheimer’s. During the making of “The Notebook,” Gena Rowlands mentioned she channeled her mom.
“I went via that with my mom, and if Nick hadn’t directed the movie, I do not suppose I might have gone for it —it is simply too laborious,” Rowlands instructed O journal in 2004. “It was a troublesome however great film.”
