Willis throws water on fireballs

LOS ANGELES — Bruce Willis has reportedly admitted that he is “bored” of shooting action films, despite enjoying the money they bring.

In an interview with the Spanish magazine XLS, the 58-year-old was asked for his opinion on action movies and allegedly replied: “Explosions are one of the most boring parts of my job. When you have seen a few fireballs, it’s not exciting anymore. I know part of my audience enjoys the explosions, but to be honest, I’m a bit bored of it now.

“I am very clear with who I am. I work in all sorts of films, but the action movies are the ones that generate the most revenue. I like to earn lots of money from those, but I do all types: small productions, megaprojects, medium sized, even science fiction.”

Willis did, however, add that he was not “someone who spends the whole day counting bank notes”, nor did he “dance for joy” when he received payment for his films.

The star of the Die Hard trilogy, whose latest film, RED 2, recently hit cinemas around the world, has been involved in a number of awkward interviews this year. He appeared distracted when chatting to Matt Baker and Alex Jones on BBC’s The One Show in February to promote A Good Day To Die Hard, but later apologised, citing jet lag as the reason for his “stale” responses: “I didn’t get very many compliments about it. They said it was a little stale. But I was so jet-lagged.”

Later, in another interview, he said: “(Promoting a film) is not acting, what we’re doing right now. You might be (acting), but we’re just selling the film now. The fun part was making the movie.”

Willis was also criticised recently by Sylvester Stallone, who described him as “greedy and lazy” on Twitter. The pair starred together in the first two Expendables films but Willis will not feature in the third film, due out in August 2014.

RED 2 was met with a lukewarm critical reception on its release earlier this month. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH