Richard Gere spoke about his chemistry with Julia Roberts in 'Pretty Woman' during a masterclass at the 81st Venice Film Festival on Sept. 1, per The Hollywood Reporter.
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“This actor and this actress obviously had no chemistry between them …,” he continued. “I haven’t seen that in a long time. That’s a sexy scene.” to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. While the pair’s romantic union in the film remains fondly etched in fans’ memories decades later, Gere admitted during the masterclass that he believes his character was “criminally underwritten.
“This is a movie, a very small movie with a wonderful director named Garry Marshall,” he explained. “But we were having fun making this little tiny movie. We didn’t know if anyone would ever see this little tiny movie. No one would ever pay attention to this little tiny movie.”The actor also shared that the steamy piano scene in the film was completely improvised and drawn from his own experiences in hotels.
“Garry said to me, ‘What do you do at late at night in a hotel?' And I said, ‘Well, I’m usually jet-lagged, ’” Gere recalled. “So I’m up all night and usually there’s a ballroom somewhere or a bar, and I’ll find a piano and I’ll play the piano’ … So we just basically improvised this scene, and … I just started playing something moody that was this character’s interior life.
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