Bruce Willis' Hollywood legacy will be one of kindness.
After the Golden Globe winner, 67,announced his retirementfrom the industry in March, hisWire RoomcostarOliver Trevenatells PEOPLE about working with the “humble, lovely, brilliant” actor on one of his final films.
“That would be one for me on my bucket list. However you see Bruce Willis, he’s a legend. I grew up watchingDie Hard.I think most people did,” Trevena, 41, says. “He’s an icon in the action world, in the movie world. So getting to be in a movie with him in a prominent way was, as I say, it’s a bucket list checked off.”
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Filmed during theCOVID-19pandemic, the production mostly took place with actors filming from separate locations, which presented a welcomed challenge for Trevena.
“And I’m really just wearing an earpiece of having to act like it’s all happening without anyone there in front of me,” Trevena recalls. “So it was quite a fun adventure. I figured I could have some fun with it, which was part of the reason I signed up.”
Trevena still had a chance to bond with Willis as he arrived to the production early to meet his costars and work on their lines together, praising writer Brandon Stiefer for writing an “interesting” and “very clever” script.
“I came to set early, I would say probably four or five days early to read my lines off camera so that they could see and I could see how we were going to play the scene,” he explains. “Because it’s all about their energy as well, what they’re giving in the lines to what then I would know what to do with mine.”
The British actor previously worked with Willis on last year’sOut of Death, from the sameEmmett/Furla Oasisproduction team, butWire Roomgave them a chance to collaborate on a deeper level.
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“Obviously, having a chance to work with Bruce in a bigger capacity of what I had done before was nice,” Trevena says.
Wire Roomis now playing in select theaters, digital and on demand.
source: people.com
