Bruce Willis

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q2680: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (28 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (37) everyone in acting

actor, Unbreakable (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Fearless with Timothy Simons)
voice of Mikey, reportedly with a box-office percentage and about $10 million, Look Who's Talking (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis)
voice of the dog, Rugrats Go Wild (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis)
voice, Over the Hedge (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis)
voice, Beavis and Butt-Head (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis)
actor, Perfect Stranger (The Rewatchables, ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
actor, Mercury Rising (The Rewatchables, ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
actor (Butch), Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
actor, Die Hard with a Vengeance (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
actor, Color of Night (The Rewatchables, ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan)
actor, What Just Happened (The Rewatchables, ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan)
actor (cameo), The Player (The Rewatchables, 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris)
actor, Striking Distance (The Rewatchables, 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris)
actor, Mortal Thoughts (The Rewatchables, 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris)
star (John McClane), Die Hard 2 (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
star (Butch), Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
star, Die Hard (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
star, Look Who's Talking (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
star, The Last Boy Scout (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
star, 12 Monkeys (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
star, The Sixth Sense (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
cameo (as himself), Ocean's 12 (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
cameo (as himself), The Player (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
star, The Bonfire of the Vanities (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
star, Hudson Hawk (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
star, Striking Distance (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
star, Death Wish (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
actor, Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
character, Die Hard (The Big Picture, ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips!)
actor, Billy Bathgate (The Big Picture, The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’)
star, discount rate, The Sixth Sense (Blank Check — Patreon, The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free))
cast, 12 Monkeys (Blank Check — Patreon, Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free))
lead, The Story of Us (Blank Check — Patreon, Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free))
star, Die Hard (Blank Check — Patreon, Alien: Resurrection)
star, The Jackal (Blank Check — Patreon, Alien: Resurrection)
actor, The Whole Nine Yards (Blank Check — Patreon, Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia)
actor, Nobody's Fool (Blank Check — Patreon, Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free))

Other (2) everyone in other

Paul Sheldon on Broadway, Misery (The Rewatchables, ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman)
supposedly considered, Eyes Wide Shut (Blank Check — Patreon, Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free))

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

career (career strategy contrast): Bruce Willis → Tom Cruise. Willis was erratic and high-volume, not a Cruise who picks the best material and promotes it to death.
“this is not going to ever be like a cruise or somebody who's just like, I pick the best material.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:06:32 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career arc): Bruce Willis → Kevin Costner. Both flew close to the sun with hits and then had major bombs.
“Costner and him, I think, both flew pretty close to the sun with some of their hits and then had some major bombs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:57 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

people (2)

people (early collaborator): Bruce Willis → M. Night Shyamalan. Willis took a risk on then-unknown Shyamalan and kept working with him.
“He's in the 6th sense with a little known filmmaker named M Night Shyamalan, who he went on to work with all the time.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
people (self-aware cameo): Bruce Willis → The Player. He played himself in The Player 30 years before Ocean's 12.
“he did the same thing 30 years before that in the player.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

theme (2)

theme (theme): Richard Gere → Bruce Willis. Leading men of the era did not play bad guys, unlike Gere here; Willis and Costner barely did.
“Costner played 0 bad guys other than No Way Out, if you count that as a bad guy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:32:31 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (persona blend): Bruce Willis → Paul Newman. Willis split the difference between Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman as persona.
“it seems like he's trying to split the difference between like Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman in terms of the persona.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:11:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

unmapped (voice work): Bruce Willis → Over the Hedge. Willis took the voice role Jim Carrey left; the speakers say voice work is his last comedy outlet.
“if it's just my voice, they'll let me be funny Bruno.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:37:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (star power): Bruce Willis → Pulp Fiction. Willis's star stamp as Butch is a big reason Pulp Fiction became Pulp Fiction.
“a big reason pulp fiction became pulp fiction is because a big movie star Bruce Willis put his stamp on it to play Butch.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:07:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
unmapped (marriage): Bruce Willis → Demi Moore. Their power-couple marriage was a big piece of his fame, and she briefly matched his stardom.
“That was one of the biggest celebrity couples we had.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:14:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

what-if (what-if): Bruce Willis → Matt Dillon. Dillon asked for a day to decide and wanted to see Butch fight; Willis said he'd love to be Butch, ending it.
“Matt Dillon was like, give me a day.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:39:20 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Bruce Willis: Bruce's hair here is the last wave of the peninsula at the top before chicanery.
“I think this was the last wave of when he had like the peninsula at the top.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:04:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)