Richard Gere remembers Gary Marshall
Richard Gere took a stroll down the reminiscence lane.
The actor just lately shared a precious performing lesson he realized whereas engaged on the enduring movie Fairly Lady.
Talking on SiriusXM’s The Highlight with Jessica Shaw, the 75-year-old actor mirrored on the function late director Garry Marshall performed in creating the proper chemistry between him and co-star Julia Roberts.
Gere credited Marshall with guaranteeing their on-screen dynamic felt real, an important factor that contributed to the movie’s enduring success.
“So, we’re working on Pretty Woman and we’re trying to figure out how to do this and we’re fooling around with the director, Garry Marshall, who’s incredible,” Gere mentioned. “I love Garry.”
He added, “Julia’s there and I’m there and Julia’s really beginning as an actress and she’s Julia. She’s bubbly and she’s blah, blah, blah, and I come in. I want to act, you know, I want to be the actor, and we both are kind of like all over the place, you know?”
“She’s moving, I’m moving, and he says, ‘Wait a minute.’ Garry says, he says, ‘In this movie, one of you moves and one of you doesn’t and in this [scene], the girl moves, and the boy doesn’t,’ and that communicated a lot actually of how to approach the characters.”
Gere continued, “I mean, you can read from that how they think, how they feel, how they feel about themselves, how settled they are, how unsettled they are. It said a lot coming from Garry.”
Gere additionally reminisced on the start of his longtime friendship with Roberts in a current look on The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon, sharing how Marshall put them “together” earlier than the actor signed Fairly Lady.