Performer Richard Gere has been on screen for 51 years, but if attendees Venice Film Festival is any indication, his most beloved role is like Edward LewisA businessman makes a strict deal warmed up by the vivacious prostitute Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) IN Beautiful womanAt a masterclass event on Gere’s career on Sunday, the audience applauded loudly when the 1990 romantic comedy was introduced, prompting the actor to look back at the 34-year-old film.
According to Hollywood Reporter“I mean, there’s no chemistry,” Gere said sarcastically when the film was released. piano scene—in which Gere lifts Roberts onto the instrument and into a bear hug—appeared on screen at the Venezia Tennis Club. “It was clear that this actor and this actress had no chemistry between them.”
“I haven’t seen that in a long time. It was a very, very sexy scene,” he continued.
Richard Gere said part of the film was a spontaneous event, Diversity report“This was never in the script,” he said. “We had no idea how we were going to use it later. It ended up being an integral part of the film.”
This scene happened when the director Garry Marshall “He said to me, ‘What do you do late at night in a hotel?’ And I said, ‘Oh, I’m often jetlagged, [that] would be when I was in a hotel. So I’d stay up all night and there would usually be a ballroom somewhere or a bar, and I’d find a piano, and I’d play the piano.’”
Marshall said to Gere, ‘Okay, let’s do something with that,'” he recalled. “So we basically just improvised this scene, and he said, ‘Let’s do a sad scene.’ I just started doing a sad scene, which is the inner life of this character.”
Gere said that moment helped move the romance forward, as it allowed Vivian to understand Edward “in a completely different way. There was a mysterious longing and maybe a wounded quality to this guy that she didn’t know about.”
According to Gere, issues like Edward’s inner life and damaged nature were also not in the script. He was “playing a character that was almost built around a criminal type. It was basically a suit and a good haircut,” Gere said.
This isn’t the first time Gere has expressed his displeasure with the role. In fact, he was much more critical of the film in 2012, when he said Beautiful woman is “my least favorite thing”.
The film makes tough businessmen like Edward “look cool, which is wrong. Luckily, these days, we’re all a lot more skeptical of those guys.” A fair Evaluate!
“People ask me about [that film]“But I forgot,” Gere said in a 2012 interview. “It was a silly romantic comedy.” (Though that wasn’t always the intention, as everyone knows.)
Perhaps the 12 years since that conversation have softened Gere, who celebrates his 75th birthday on Saturday. “We had so much fun making this little movie,” he said today. “We didn’t know if anyone was going to see this little movie. No one was going to pay attention to this little movie.”
