Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer's disease, per an update shared by her son, actor and director Nick Cassavetes in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly. Cassavetes directed 2004 romance film "The Notebook," casting Rowlands as a character with dementia.
“I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” Cassavetes told the outlet. “She’s in full dementia. And it’s so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us."
