The director of the action film Tears of the Sun
, Antoine Fuqua, once revealed in an interview that he couldn’t get along with Bruce Willis on set.
Bruce Willis is known as one of Hollywood’s greatest action stars. With films like The Sixth Sense, Die Hard, and Sin City, the actor made a name for himself internationally.
However, it seems not every director got along well with the actor’s working style, as became evident in an interview with Antoine Fuqua, the director of Tears of the Sun.
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Professional Differences on the Set of Tears of the Sun
In a BBC interview in September 2014, Antoine Fuqua was asked who the biggest pain in the neck was that he had ever worked with.
The director responded with Bruce Willis’s name and said, “He got on my nerves.”
He went on to explain that there were no personal disputes involved, but only differences related to their professional collaboration.
The two got along very well off-camera. However, their working styles and perspectives on the set of Tears of the Sun were so different that they simply did not harmonize:
[…] Some men just don’t get along when it comes to work – you have different work ethics, different opinions, different views, different methods of filmmaking – and we didn’t understand each other.
Off-camera, we were friends – Bruce is great – but we just can’t get along when it comes to work, and that’s all there is to it.
Antoine Fuqua, Source BBC
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