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It's the movie that brings a tear to every audience member's eye—The Notebook.
Starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, we all fell madly in love with the story of star-crossed lovers Noah and Allie.
American actress Gena Rowlands played the older version of Allie in the film's present-day scenes, where Allie's elderly husband Noah reminds her of their love story every day while she battles dementia.
Now part of the film is mirroring real-life.
This week, The Notebook's director Nick Cassavetes announced Rowlands is living with Alzheimer's.
Cassavetes — who is also Rowland's son — cast his own mother as one of the film's main characters. He told Entertainment Weekly that it was surreal to now live out part of the movie's plot.
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"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," he said about his 94-year-old mother.