Heming Willis said: "I met him in like 2005, I want to say, and we met at the gym, like most people in Hollywood do, I guess. Just more about who I was, about my life, and prior to that I had never really thought about Bruce Willis." Heming Willis had grown up watching Willis in Moonlighting, although she said she was never particularly interested in the action movies that helped make him one of Hollywood's biggest stars. She said: "I grew up watching Moonlighting, but I was never really an action movie fan. So when I had noticed him, I had said to my mother, 'I met Bruce Willis, and he's really a lovely man.'