Bruce Willis is an American actor who has appeared in over 100 movies. After playing John McClane in the Die Hard franchise, he gained recognition as an action movie actor. One of the movies he had a role in was The Expendables. After the first movie came out Bruce Willis agreed to return to shoot The Expendables 2.

After the success of the second movie, a third one was planned and Bruce Willis originally was in the cast. But he thought that he wasn't offered enough money. For a secondary role in the third film, he would have needed to work for four days and he would have been paid $3 million. The actor asked for $4 million, so that he would be paid $1 million for a day, but the production team weren't going to pay him more. So Bruce Willis turned down the original offer and didn't take part in the movie.