Screen legend Gena Rowlands has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disorder.
The actress’ son, Nick Cassavetes, shared the information with Entertainment Weekly while reflecting on her job in the motion picture “The Notebook.” In the 2004 romance movie directed by Cassavetes, Rowlands performed the older variation of Rachel McAdams’ character, Allie, who is struggling from dementia.
“I got my mother to enjoy more mature Allie, and we invested a whole lot of time talking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be reliable with it, and now, for the last five many years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” Cassavetes informed Amusement Weekly. “She’s in entire dementia.”
The filmmaker and actor extra, “It’s so insane — we lived it, she acted it, and now it is on us.”
Rowlands’ performing profession dates back again to the 1950s, and she worked with her late husband John Cassavetes on movies like “A Female Under the Impact,” which attained her a most effective actress Oscar nomination in 1975. Rowlands was once more nominated for the greatest actress Oscar for her job in “Gloria,” also directed by Cassavetes, in 1981.
Rowlands has also won numerous Emmys for her performances in “The Betty Ford Story,” “Face of a Stranger” and “Hysterical Blindness.” Her other movie credits contain “Opening Night” and “The Skeleton Critical,” and she has appeared in dozens of Tv set displays, from “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “Columbo” to, much more just lately, “Monk” and “NCIS.”
Rowlands acquired an honorary Academy Award in 2015. At the time, Cate Blanchett described her as an “actress who has experienced the most profound affect on my operate,” while Laura Linney reflected that Rowlands “smashed and wrecked the feminine stereotype of her time.”
In her acceptance speech, Rowlands remembered her late husband, John Cassavetes.
“He wrote me the most superb sections, and for other actresses too, and sometimes he directed them,” she said. “I undoubtedly do have to thank him for that.”
Rowlands’ mother also suffered from Alzheimer’s sickness. The actress formerly told O journal, “(‘The Notebook’) was notably challenging mainly because I enjoy a character who has Alzheimer’s. I went via that with my mother, and if Nick hadn’t directed the movie, I really don’t imagine I would have gone for it — it’s just as well challenging.”
