Display screen legend Gena Rowlands has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disorder.
The actress’ son, Nick Cassavetes, shared the news with Entertainment Weekly while reflecting on her role in the motion picture “The Notebook.” In the 2004 romance film directed by Cassavetes, Rowlands played the older model of Rachel McAdams’ character, Allie, who is struggling from dementia.
“I received my mom to participate in older Allie, and we spent a whole lot of time speaking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be genuine with it, and now, for the past five yrs, she’s experienced Alzheimer’s,” Cassavetes told Amusement Weekly. “She’s in comprehensive dementia.”
The filmmaker and actor included, “It’s so ridiculous — we lived it, she acted it, and now it is on us.”
Rowlands’ acting career dates again to the 1950s, and she labored with her late husband John Cassavetes on films like “A Woman Under the Influence,” which earned her a very best actress Oscar nomination in 1975. Rowlands was again nominated for the finest actress Oscar for her role in “Gloria,” also directed by Cassavetes, in 1981.
Rowlands has also received multiple Emmys for her performances in “The Betty Ford Story,” “Face of a Stranger” and “Hysterical Blindness.” Her other film credits include “Opening Night” and “The Skeleton Crucial,” and she has appeared in dozens of Television demonstrates, from “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “Columbo” to, more a short while ago, “Monk” and “NCIS.”
Rowlands obtained an honorary Academy Award in 2015. At the time, Cate Blanchett described her as an “actress who has experienced the most profound impact on my perform,” while Laura Linney reflected that Rowlands “smashed and wrecked the feminine stereotype of her time.”
In her acceptance speech, Rowlands remembered her late partner, John Cassavetes.
“He wrote me the most spectacular components, and for other actresses way too, and sometimes he directed them,” she claimed. “I undoubtedly do have to thank him for that.”
Rowlands’ mother also endured from Alzheimer’s disease. The actress earlier told O journal, “(‘The Notebook’) was specifically tricky mainly because I engage in a character who has Alzheimer’s. I went by way of that with my mom, and if Nick hadn’t directed the movie, I never imagine I would have long gone for it — it is just also hard.”
