‘Pretty Woman’ star Richard Gere claims ‘sexy scene’ with Julia Roberts was improvised: ‘Never in the script’
nypost.comVenice Film Festival on Sunday where they played a clip of his and Julia Roberts’ infamous piano scene in “Pretty Woman,” prompting Gere to joke that the pair had “no chemistry.”“I haven’t seen that in a long time, too.
It was a sexy, sexy scene,” he added, according to The Hollywood Reporter. According to Gere, the scene in the 1990 film was actually improvised after a conversation between Gere and director Garry Marshall.“This was never in the script,” he said. “We didn’t know how we would use it later.
It ended up being integral to the film.”In that moment, wealthy businessman Edward Lewis plays a piano at a hotel in the middle of the night when sex worker Vivian Ward (Roberts) enters in a bathrobe.
Edward asks the staff to leave them alone, and they start making out on the piano.“Garry said to me, ‘What do you do late at night in a hotel?’ And I said, ‘Well, I’m usually jet lagged, [that] would be the time I’m in a hotel.
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