Willis did wind up pulling double responsibility on Moonlighting and Die Hard initially.
“So after the first week,” film writer Steven E. de Souza informed Slash Film in 2018, “John McTiernan concerned me and stated, ‘We have at least another week of this overlap. Why do not you return into the script and see if you can discover more things for all the other characters to do?’
“That led to more scenes at the house with the housekeeper,” he described, “it led to building up the idiot newscaster, and it led to some of the great scenes between Holly and Hans Gruber.”
Moreover, de Souza continued, “Powell was always in there, but under that direction, I ended up giving him more interaction with the cops on the ground, and there was some comedy that came out of that.”
The 11 th-hour additions to the discussion required a little bit of improvisation from the stars and a lot of last-minute memorization. Willis credited his Moonlighting experience, while VelJohn boy associated his phase work for his capability to go with the circulation.
“For a young actor,” he informed E!, “the stage is the most telling classroom that you could ever have…Theater gives you a certain discipline that you don’t get otherwise. It teaches you how to deliver.”
