Actress Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer’s disease, according to her son Nick Cassavetes, who directed his mother in 2004’s The Notebook.
The director and actor told Entertainment Weekly that it was “crazy” that his mother played a woman with cognitive decline in the iconic romance — and now she’s struggling with the progressive disease herself.
"I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer's and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she's had Alzheimer's," Cassavetes told EW about his mother, now 93, who played the older version of Rachael McAdams’ character in the film.
"She's in full dementia. And it's so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it's on us."
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The director and actor told Entertainment Weekly that it was “crazy” that his mother played a woman with cognitive decline in the iconic romance — and now she’s struggling with the progressive disease herself.
"I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer's and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she's had Alzheimer's," Cassavetes told EW about his mother, now 93, who played the older version of Rachael McAdams’ character in the film.
"She's in full dementia. And it's so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it's on us."
'The Notebook' Star Gena Rowlands Has Alzheimer's Disease, Is in ‘Full Dementia', Her Son Says
Actress Gena Rowlands, who played a woman with Alzheimer’s disease in 'The Notebook,' has been struggling with the disease for the last five years, her son Nick Cassavetes says.
