Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Pretty Woman Cast Reunites on Today: See the Pic!

The cast of Pretty Woman reunited this week on the Today show this week, a quarter century after the now-iconic film was first released in theaters.



Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Hector Elizondo, Laura San Giacomo, and director Garry Marshall all appeared to mark the occasion and all looked terrific:



With the appearance came little known facts about Pretty Woman, which apparently wasn't going to be called Pretty Woman when it was first conceived.


When Marshall joined the cast, the film was called 3,000, and was a rather dark tale. Roberts, now 47, explained of the original script for the 1990 classic:


“At the end of the original script, Richard’s character threw my character out of the car, threw the money on top of her, and drove away, and the credits rolled.”


Yikes. No wonder Marshall decided to turn it into a love story.


Gere said back then he needed convincing to take on the role he referred to as "the suit," saying, “you could put a suit on a goa ... so I didn’t get it.”


It took one “pretty woman” to persuade him to accept, though. Marshall took Roberts to visit Gere and left the room so they could have a conversation.


“She’s across the desk and she takes a piece of paper, a Post-it, and she turns it around and she pushes it to me and she says ‘Please say yes,’” Gere said.


“It was so sweet, and I said, ‘I just said yes.’”


As for their chemistry, which made the film such a classic, Gere said it was instant, noting, “We loved each other immediately, it was a really great thing.”



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