Richard Gere is spilling details on his popular 1990 film, 'Pretty Woman,' admitting that a famous scene with Julia Roberts was improvised.
A key part of 'Pretty Woman' turned out to have been improvised, according to the film's star, Richard Gere. On Sunday, while attending a Cartier masterclass event at the Venice Film Festival, Gere revealed that a 'sexy' scene between him and his co-star, Julia Roberts, was actually not meant to be a part of the movie.
In the movie, the now 75-year-old actor plays an affluent businessman who falls in love with a prostitute , whom he hires to accompany him to events. Of the role, Gere said he played 'a character who was almost criminally underwritten. It was basically a suit and a good haircut.' Gere also acknowledged that the piano scene allowed Vivian 'to see in a complete different way. There was a mysterious yearning and maybe a damaged quality to this guy that she didn’t know.
Garry said to me, ‘What do you do at late at night in a hotel?'' Gere recalled, according to The Hollywood Reporter. '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. So we just basically improvised this scene, and he said, ‘Play something moody.
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