Cybill Shepherd revealed the real reason why she and Bruce Willis never went out

"My temperature increased by 10 degrees. It meant two things for me ..."


Fans of the 80s seriesAt the Moonlight will never forget the chemistry betweenCybill Shepherd andBruce Willis, who played private detectives Maddie Hayes and David Addison, one of the most emblematic couples of television. And, if you ask Shepherd, thatChemistry was very real off screen, also. The star has opened over the years to her, sometimes, a controversial relationship with Willis, and how their real tension has resulted in the screen.

But, while their chemistry has helped to doAt the MoonlightWhat it was, in a new interview, Shepherd revealed why she knew that, despite this connection, she could never go out with Willis. Read the rest to see what she had to say.

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Shepherd knew she couldn't give in to their attraction.

Cybill Shepherd at
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In a new interview within addition,,Shepherd was asked about Willis In the light of his recent retirement to act due toHis diagnosis of aphasia.

"I just have to say one thing about Bruce. No one else has ever beenconsidered For the role when he entered the room, "Shepherd said aboutAt the Moonlight. "My temperature increased by 10 degrees. It meant two things for me: one, I was very attracted by him, two, I would never act on it, because we were both very attracted to the other."

Shepherd added: "I still love Bruce."

They kissed - no character - just once.

Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis at the 1987 Golden Globe Awards
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In his book 2000Cybill disobedience (via theNew York Post), Shepherd wrote on a time when she and Willis really connected. She said that at some point, she asked, "Are we going to do something about it or what?" So he came to her house and, as she said, "it was not long in passionately sucking the face." But, they had a second reflection on borrowing things because they still worked together. "We have never finished what we started," she wrote.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

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They had their dramatic moments.

Shepherd said she and Willis have often started to setMoonlight.

"Oh yes, we fought all the time,"She said in an interview With the Television Academy Foundation. "And it was part of the preparation, it was that work, you know, so it was real."

In the same way,she said Weekly entertainmentIn 2005, "I remember at some point in the show, he had come where we hate each other. It was still a very volatile show, but it was also what made him great."

Willis said he had "great memories" of the show.

Bruce Willis at the Jazz Foundation of America benefit concert Great Night in Harlem in 2019
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In an interview of 2012 with HuffPost,Willis looked back on his time manufacturingAt the Moonlight. Although he did not speak of Shepherd in particular, he had good memories.

"I have a lot of good memories on this subject-a lot of good memories on this subject," he said. "There are all these memories that I have about the fun and frantic rhythm in which we worked to get 10 pages a day, on seven days of filming. This is one thing. The other is that it was A huge bond of quantum for me. I had just made theater in New York and I think I had made a television role, onMiami vice. And then I got this work in California and it was a huge jump. A very exciting period - just to be able to offer this kind of work, then find a job where you do it for five years. ""

Shepherd roasted Willis and their past.

Cybill Shepherd at the Roast of Bruce Willis in 2018
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When a central comedy roast took place for Willis in 2018, Shepherd was one of the participants andShe joked about their working relationship.

"Our characters onAt the Moonlight Weren't really a section, "she said." I played an old model, what I was. And he played an [explanive], what he is. Bruce and I were really attracted to each other, but familiarity can reproduce contempt, so we did not act on it. Shame. Because on the basis of how much we ended up hating ourselves, sex would have been incredible. ""

In the end, she added, when Willis laughed, "of course, our relationship was volatile and sometimes explosive, but in the end it was the perfect formula for success. I know we did not had a conversation for 30 years, but we will have something more important: the residues. "

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