Richard Gere joked that his 'Pretty Woman' character was 'criminally underwritten' while celebrating his 75th birthday at the Venice Film Festival: 'It was basically a suit and a good haircut.'
"It was basically a suit and a good haircut," said the actor while celebrating his 75th birthday at the Venice Film Festival.. The clip centered a steamy interaction between the two actors, which earned a hearty applause from the crowd and plenty of sarcastic quips from Gere. The scene in question sees Gere’s Edward undressing Roberts’ Vivian atop a hotel piano. The actor, who blushed through the applause, added, “I haven’t seen that in a long time. That’s a sexy scene.
“Garry said to me, ‘What do you do at late at night in a hotel?'” Gere recalled. “And I said, ‘Well, I’m usually jet lagged, would be the time I’m in a hotel. 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.’ He said: ‘Well, let’s do something with that.’”
, which marked a career high for both actors, sees Gere as a stern buseinessman who pays a sex worker to masquerade as his girlfriend at several work events over the course of a single week. In true rom-com fashion, the fake couple slowly fall in love, complicating their arrangement as they both come to terms with their feelings.
"I think he passed away peacefully in his sleep from a heart attack, smiling,” Roberts told interviewer Gayle King on
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