Richard Gere refused to do nude scenes in ‘Fairly Lady’.
The film’s costume supervisor Dan Lester has revealed that the star did not need his millionaire businessman Edward Lewis to reveal all in a bath scene with prostitute Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) within the hit 1990 flick.
Lester advised the Metro newspaper: “Julia’s character was at all times totally developed however Richard’s actually wasn’t. So he had quite a lot of enter in altering issues.
“I bear in mind there was a bath scene and it began out with simply Richard within the bathtub they usually wished him to be nude.
“And he is like, ‘I am not doing that’. He is like, ‘This on this film is just not about that. I am not going to do it. I’ll be coated, whether or not it is bubbles or, you recognize, or the scene’s going to happen exterior. I am not going to be bare within the bathtub’.
“And he obtained his method. He was proper, that is not what the film was about.”
Lester additionally revealed that the movie’s preliminary script was loads darker than the story turned out to be.
He mentioned: “The primary script was darkish. It was initially referred to as $3,000 as a result of that was the greenback quantity (for hiring Ward for per week).
“It wasn’t a fairytale. He did not come again in the long run and do all that.”
Richard revealed final 12 months that he turned down ‘Fairly Lady’ at first as a result of he “did not perceive” it when he first learn the script and could not see himself as part of the movie.
Talking on the ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast, Richard mentioned: “Let me be clear, I actually just like the film. Initially, I didn’t perceive it. There was no character. So I learn this factor and I mentioned, ‘It’s not for me. To me it’s a swimsuit that’s there within the film’.
“[I said], ‘I wouldn’t thoughts seeing the film. However I don’t see myself doing this’.”
Richard was finally satisfied to take the function after a gathering with Roberts.
Recalling a dialog with director Garry Marshall, the 75-year-old actor said: “I mentioned, ‘She’s lovely. She’s nice’. And whereas I’m speaking to him, she takes a Submit-It off of my desk and she or he writes on it one thing.
“Then she strikes it throughout the desk to me and it says, ‘Please say sure’. So how may you say no to that?”
Following “quite a lot of rewrites”, Richard had a “great time” engaged on the film and threw himself into the mission.
He mentioned: “We ended up actually looking for a personality there that made sense throughout the construction and the essence of what that piece was.
“To make it heartfelt, to make it charming, make it enjoyable, make it attractive, you recognize?
“And all of us liked one another. Nice belief, we had an exquisite time, and we had no concept that it was gonna be what it was.”
