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The Notebook's Gena Rowlands Is Battling Alzheimer's, Is 'In Full Dementia'
Legendary actress Gena Rowlands' son, Nick Cassavetes, revealed that his mother has Alzheimer's disease after playing a character battling the same disease in ‘The Notebook’
Cassavetes, 65, broke the news while chatting with Entertainment Weekly about the 20th anniversary of the movie, which starred Rowlands, 94, as an older version of Rachel McAdams ’ Allie Hamilton. 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. Gena Rowlands and Nick Cassavetes.Byron Purvis/AdMedia Newscom/MEGAShe followed up her role in The Notebook with projects such as The Skeleton Key, Broken English, Monk, NCIS and Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks.
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