LEN WISEMAN - WISEMAN: 'I REMOVED WILLIS' VEST'

Director LEN WISEMAN refused to disguise BRUCE WILLIS' age in the long-awaited fourth DIE HARD movie - but was forced to remove the hero's iconic white vest. Wiseman says he did not want to trade the 52-year-old Willis for a younger action hero in Live Free + Die Hard - released internationally as Die Hard 4.0 - so chose to make the most of his baldness and wrinkles. But the Wiseman says he could not allow Willis to wear the famous white vest. He says, "It's there, under his shirt. But the combination of baldness and the singlet made him look like he was on death row. "These days it seems we're being offered older teenagers as action heroes, and it's all wrong. Bruce just gets cooler with age, and he looks tough and kick ass. "So we made him a divorced dad, trying to control his teenage daughter. The only discussion was whether he should be bald or not."