Heartthrob, Hero, Closet Intellectual: The Many Faces of Bruce Willis

Samuel L. Jackson still remembers the priceless piece of career advice that Bruce Willis gave him when they were shooting Die Hard With a Vengeance in 1994. “He told me, ‘Hopefully you’ll be able to find a character that, when you make bad movies and they don’t make any money, you can always go back to this character everybody loves,” Jackson recalls. “He said, ‘Arnold’s got Terminator. Sylvester’s got Rocky, Rambo. I’ve got John McClane.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, okay.’…