Richard Gere Talks Improvising ‘Pretty Woman’s’ ‘Sexy’ Piano Scene and Why His Character Was ‘Crimin

[Music] [Applause] [Music] Richard Gear celebrated his 75th birthday with hyped up fans at a masterclass hosted by cardier at the Venice film festival and revealed some behind the scenes on the filming of his cult movie Pretty Woman directed by Gary Marshall reacting to a clip of his steamy piano scene with Julia Roberts gear laughed and blushed about his palpable chemistry with the actor no chemistry he laughed I mean this actor and this actress obviously had no chemistry between them I haven't seen that in a long time too it was a sexy sexy scene gear then went on to share that the scene had been improvised this was never in the script we didn't know how we would use it later it ended up being integral to the film said gear who also joked that Heath was playing a character that was almost criminally underwritten it was basically a suit and a good haircut he said the idea for the scene came up after the director asked him to imagine what his character would do during his time at the hotel we just basically improvise this scene I just started playing something Moody that was about this character's interior life said gear who stars as Edward a wealthy but lonely entrepreneur who hires an escort Vivien to accompany him at social events and falls in love with her but ultimately the scene brought depth to the plot because Robert's character was able to see him in a complete different way there was a mysterious yearning and maybe a damaged quality to this guy that she didn't know in the scene Edward plays piano in the ballroom of the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in the middle of the night when Vivien who fell asleep watching I Love Lucy on TV enters wearing a bathrobe he asks the staff to leave them alone and sits her at top the piano before they start making out released in 1990 the movie was produced on a reported $14 million budget and grossed $43.40 didn't know if anyone would ever see this the actor who is being honored at the amfar with the award of inspiration discussed about the arts and craft of filmm from acting screenwriting lighting dubbing and musical composition at the masterclass he talked about one of the greatest challenges of his career while playing a Japanese American character in Aira kurosawa's Rap City in August although gear himself is Japanese American he said the experience of starring in the movie proved challenging because he kept thinking that he had to do something to make myself Japanese so I'd spend the day doing things and moving my eyes and doing various things like this and I could see Kurosawa shaking his head and looking over then the assistant director told him Kurosawa said I don't know what Richard's trying to do because he looks completely Japanese to me gear made a big comeback this year with Paul shreders O Canada which competed at can in the movie which reunited Gear with Shader for the first time since 1980s American jiggalo the actor plays a terminally ill writer and filmmaker who sits down for a final interview to reveal the unvarnished facts of his life gear who will next star opposite Michael Fender in the agency the US remake of the French spy Thriller laburo de Legends said that he's working on a project with his son who attended the master class with him it's a father and son story getting to know each other and to know each other he said and I'm the father all of that young really cute boy now I'm the father

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