{"id":147193,"date":"2022-09-29T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/bruce-willis-has-become-first-hollywood-actor-to-sell-rights-to-digital-twin"},"modified":"2022-09-29T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:23:23","slug":"bruce-willis-has-become-first-hollywood-actor-to-sell-rights-to-digital-twin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/bruce-willis-has-become-first-hollywood-actor-to-sell-rights-to-digital-twin","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Willis has become first Hollywood actor to sell rights to \u2018digital twin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bruce-willis-has-become-first-hollywood-actor-to-sell-rights-to-digital-twin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like he will be able to do Die Hard 300 and beyond.\ud83d\ude04<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Earlier this year, Bruce Willis announced he\u2019d be \u2018stepping away\u2019 from acting following an aphasia diagnosis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/film-and-tv\/aphasia-explained-as-legendary-actor-bruce-willis-retires-20220330\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disorder<\/a> that affects how a person communicates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/news\/bruce-willis-diagnosed-with-aphasia-and-is-retiring-from-acting-20220330\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aphasia impacts writing, speech<\/a>, and how someone understands spoken language.<\/p>\n<p>And although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/celebrity\/bruce-willis-wife-speaks-grief-20220831\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Willis<\/a> didn\u2019t mention the diagnosis when he confirmed this week that he\u2019d sold his rights, allowing his \u2018digital twin\u2019 to be used on screen, it would allow him to keep appearing in films without actually being on set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like he will be able to do Die Hard 300 and beyond.\ud83d\ude04 Earlier this year, Bruce Willis announced he\u2019d be \u2018stepping away\u2019 from acting following an aphasia diagnosis. A disorder that affects how a person communicates, aphasia impacts writing, speech, and how someone understands spoken language. And although Willis didn\u2019t mention the diagnosis when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}