“The Notebook” star Gena Rowlands, 94, has Alzheimer’s condition.
Her son Nick Cassavetes, who directed the beloved 2004 rom-com, exposed his mom’s diagnosis to Leisure Weekly on Tuesday.
Ironically, Gena’s character in the movie experienced dementia. She performed the more mature version of Rachel McAdams’ Allie Hamilton.
“I obtained my mom to engage in older Allie, and we spent a large amount of time talking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the past 5 several years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” mentioned Cassavetes, 65.
“She’s in comprehensive dementia. And it is so mad — we lived it, she acted it, and now it is on us,” he added.
Rowlands’ mom and Cassavetes’ grandmother, actress Girl Rowlands, also experienced Alzheimer’s.
Rowlands starred in “The Notebook” with McAdams, Ryan Gosling, James Garner, James Marsden and Kevin Connolly. The film is dependent on Nicholas Sparks’ 1996 novel.
The year the movie arrived out, Rowlands opened up to “O” journal about about actively playing a character with Alzheimer’s immediately after her mother confronted the exact disorder.
“This last a single — ‘The Notebook’ — was especially really hard due to the fact I play a character who has Alzheimer’s. I went as a result of that with my mother, and if Nick hadn’t directed the movie, I really don’t feel I would have long gone for it.”
“t’s just as well tricky,” Rowlands extra. “It was a challenging but fantastic film.”
