The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes revealed that his mother, legendary actress Gena Rowlands, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
“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 the outlet in an interview published on Tuesday, June 25. “She’s in full dementia. And it’s so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us.”
Cassavetes went on to reminisce about filming The Notebook with his mother, revealing that studio executives asked them to reshoot one of the ending scenes in which Allie realizes the man reading her own love story back to her is Noah. Twenty years later, Cassavetes says he thinks The Notebook still “holds up pretty good,” noting, “It's always a shock to hear that as much time has gone by as it has, but it makes sense. I'm just happy that it exists. It seems to have worked and I’m very proud of it.”
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