Gena Rowlands, who played character with Alzheimer’s in The Notebook, has disease herself, reveals film’s director [Video]

Their story is narrated years later by an elderly man, played by James Garner, to Rowlands, initially presented as another nursing home resident with dementia. It’s later revealed that Garner and Rowlands are actually the older, married versions of Gosling and McAdams’ characters, sharing their enduring love story.