You were watching your thoughts and understanding them,' he says triumphantly, breaking the awkward silence at the interview table. You watch your mind and notice the thoughts which come up. Those thoughts all take you somewhere. That one first thought has probably filled your mind with many other thoughts - operas, novels, everything.'Operas? Most journalists were probably using that five seconds of freedom from the Hollywood treadmill to plan how they could fit in a bit of extra shopping before catching their flights home. But Gere's zen- like experiment did at least prove one thing - that, for an actor, he's thoughtful. It's a quality that came in useful for his role in Shall We Dance?, the US remake of the Japanese ballroom dancing hit. Gere plays a sensitive, introspective husband who seems to have the perfect life - until he spots dance teacher Jennifer Lopez from a train. Gere's character, John Clark, is an affluent lawyer who's perfectly happy with his wife (Susan Sarandon) and teenage daughter. He's so content, he can't even suggest a birthday present for himself. But as soon as he spots the sultry Lopez standing in the window of a ballroom dancing school, things change. Although his romance with Lopez doesn't go anywhere, he discovers a different kind of love: ballroom dancing. It's not giving much away to say that Gere never gets to have a roll in the hay with Lopez. Instead, the film concentrates on how he channels his subdued lust into his dancing. That was what Gere liked about the script.'It wasn't the usual cliched story,' he says. So, he had to look at himself and say, 'Why am I here? Why am I really learning dancing?' There's a transition point in the movie where he realises that he actually likes to dance.
Richard Gere's latest turn is as a truly nasty cop in 'Internal Affairs.' And he'll be seen, come March, in director Garry Marshall's 'Pretty Woman,' as a wealthy New. Downloading: Shifting. File size: 536.03 MB MD5: a5ae51aa4f7f7ed011289295433e6ee4. Choose download type. He sees that he genuinely enjoys it, and he's not only there to get the girl.'The lawyer looks like a man on the edge of a mid- life crisis, even though he's not aware of it. But Gere dismisses this interpretation as facile.'I don't see it as a mid- life crisis at all,' says the 5. Chicago and Pretty Woman. If it had been about buying a sports car or a motorcycle, or finding a trophy wife, it would have fitted into the cliche of a mid- life crisis. But it's not about that. RICHARD GERE HAS just succeeded in achieving the seemingly impossible: persuading a gaggle of journalists to remain completely quiet. You were watching your.It's about a man finding something more in his life and growing into something extra.'J. Lo may have turned into one of the world's great celebrity bores, but she still looks good on screen. So, how does the lawyer manage to cool his raging hormones so quickly? It was just common sense, says Gere. He thinks sexual abstinence can make a relationship more enjoyable. Being friends can be more interesting than being lovers. How often does an infatuation end after a week or two, or even just one night? But a friendship can last a lifetime,' says Gere, who has a son with his second wife, Carey Lowell. Still, at least they get to dance a vivacious tango together. But it was nothing like this. This was serious stuff. We didn't dance together before we did it, as there was no time to rehearse.'The day we had to shoot it, Jennifer was off making another film. So, there wasn't any time to rehearse. We rehearsed with other partners, but not with each other. We just went straight into it when she arrived on the set. Jennifer is such a great dancer, so there was a lot of pressure on me. But she was a very patient and generous partner.'I rehearsed the ballroom dancing for three or four months before we started shooting. It was a bit like being a teenager again.'I remember learning all those dances like waltz and foxtrot for social dancing back then. That used to be a nightmare - the boys were always shorter than the girls, and you thought, What am I doing here? Everything about it was embarrassing.'It was a nightmare this time as well, to tell the truth. It was a little different as adults, but I still had some of those awkward moments - how should you touch, how should you be touched, how should you move, how should you stand, and how should you take your space? I learned it was all about trust. Unless you put your trust in your partner, you can't ballroom dance.'Off- screen, Gere appears well groomed. He's wearing a casual jacket, and is trying hard to appear relaxed - and thoughtful, of course - during his long series of meet- the- press sessions. He says he learned something from his dancing character in Shall We Dance? He brought that joy and freshness back into the relationship with his wife.'We've all seen those relationships where people get so in- bred with each another that it all goes dark. Like those old couples who sit in silence over dinner with nothing to say. They haven't allowed themselves to make their own breakthroughs and bring that new excitement into the relationship.'Now's the best time of my life,' Gere says. You can't know that kind of stuff when you're 1. For men, it takes at least until you reach your 3. You have to watch and experience your thoughts quietly to make those kinds of personal discoveries.'With that Gere falls silent, doubtlessly continuing to do exactly that.
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