Gena Rowlands has had Alzheimer’s for five years, her son, the filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, has revealed.
Gena Rowlands, a celebrated actor and honorary Academy Award recipient, is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, her son, the filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, has revealed.
Cassavetes, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published Tuesday, said Rowlands has had Alzheimer’s for five years. In the 2004 film „The Notebook“, Cassavetes directed his mother, who played the older version of the character played by Rachel McAdams, as a woman with dementia.
