Maybe I Do: Richard Gere admits fear about return to acting for first film in six years | Ents & Arts News

“That is the primary interview I’ve accomplished on this film, so it is utterly recent – from right here on out, I’ll have stated the whole lot.”

That is how Richard Gere began our chat about his newest movie, Possibly I Do.

Refreshingly trustworthy, the star identified for hit romcoms together with Fairly Girl and Runaway Bride hasn’t accomplished a movie since 2017 and is candid about how unusual it was returning to set.

“Each time I begin a undertaking, I type of query whether or not I do know what I am doing in any respect,” Gere admitted.

“And after three years of not making a movie or working within the theatre, I believe I had this sense of, ‘do I understand how to do that? Did I ever understand how to do that?'”

“However I believe it’s like driving a motorbike – you just about bear in mind how you can do it.”

The break Gere took was largely because of the pandemic.

A method again

As an alternative of working, Gere spent lockdown and the interval afterwards along with his spouse and kids, ready for the suitable alternative to lure him again to appearing.

“I simply stayed at house with my household… I imply, the protocols for making motion pictures in that interval have been so daunting that I did not actually wish to undergo it,” he stated.

“So it loosened up slightly bit and the script got here by way of – Michael Jacobs, a very nice man, wrote this enjoyable script.

“[I thought] it is a technique to get again into the working world with one thing grownup however enjoyable, with actors I knew and had labored with earlier than and trusted.”

‘She knew my motion pictures higher than I did’

The movie is known as Possibly I Do and is a couple of couple contemplating marriage who get their dad and mom collectively, solely to seek out they already know one another properly.

His daughter is performed by Emma Roberts – the niece of Julia Roberts, who Gere teamed up with for each Fairly Girl and Runaway Bride.

“Oh, it was humorous,” he stated about working with Emma.

“I even forgot the films – she knew my motion pictures higher than I did, those I had accomplished with Julia.

“And there was a sure irony to that.”

Roberts advised Backstage she solely acquired spherical to telling her aunt she was working with Gere after it had occurred.

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“I really solely simply advised her just lately, and I used to be like, ‘I forgot acquired to inform you, I labored with Richard,'” she stated.

“I like Runaway Bride, I like Fairly Girl, so it was actually enjoyable to get to work with him as properly, and he is so candy.

“It is like full circle, him taking part in my dad after him and my aunt working collectively a lot.”

‘She was beautiful then, and she or he’s beautiful now’

The forged additionally options Susan Sarandon, William H Macy and Diane Keaton.

Gere says it was nice to be reunited with the latter after first working collectively many years in the past within the 1977 movie On the lookout for Mr Goodbar.

“We had communicated just a few occasions through the years… She was initially of being the largest actress on this planet at that time, and I used to be simply beginning to make motion pictures,” he stated.

“However she was beautiful then, and she or he’s beautiful now.”

“You realize, she’s witty, and she or he’s enjoyable and works arduous and at all times finds her personal method by way of doing issues – it is not the plain, and it is not the predictable.”

Gere’s character within the movie is considerably jaded, fed up about getting older.

‘Foolish to not have interaction’ in rising outdated

The actor says it is not one thing he himself worries about.

“I’ve a two-and-a-half 12 months outdated and a three-and-a- half – nearly four-year-old and a ten-year-old, so I haven’t got actually the posh of eager about time or getting older,” Gere laughed.

“Getting older is inevitable. I imply, it might be foolish for individuals to not have interaction [with] it and even early on to simply give it some thought, ?”

“However I get – at greatest – a finite variety of years, and it may be rather a lot shorter based mostly on well being and accidents and all types of different issues, so it actually is inevitable.”

For Roberts, working with such a stellar forged was a golden alternative.

However she admits it did put the stress on.

“I really feel like I at all times come to work ready, however I used to be positively quadruple ready for this set.” She stated.

“However I bear in mind there was one scene the place it was like 4 and a half pages lengthy, and I had probably the most dialogue and at one level I simply forgot my traces as a result of all I may really feel was everybody’s eyes taking a look at me.”

“And although I’ve clearly been working for a very long time, to work with such an enormous calibre of expertise in a single room, it was actually wonderful.”

Possibly I Do is streaming now on Prime Video.