That may have been because Willis was voted president of Student Council. The actor also played baseball and was part of the drama club, acting in some of the school plays. Willis found it to be therapeutic.

"I had a horrible stutter when I was a kid, from the time I was 9 until the time I was about 17. And a miraculous thing happened when I was in high school," told Reader's Digest. "I was doing this goofy play. It wasn’t a goofy play, we just did it in a goofy way. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. When I got onstage, I stopped stuttering. When I stepped off the stage, I started stuttering again. And I went, 'This is a miracle. I got to investigate this more.'"