Richard Gere

Made films the shows talk about.

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No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (8 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (14) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (6)

  1. career (career): Richard Gere → An Officer and a Gentleman. Internal Affairs and An Officer and a Gentleman are probably the final two for Gere's best performance.
    “It's this and it's officer and a gentleman probably in the final two.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:09:11 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Richard Gere → American Gigolo. Some would say American Gigolo, but it is not a charisma movie.
    “Some would say Gigolo, but I don't think Gigolo is a charisma movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:09:14 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Richard Gere → King David. After An Officer and a Gentleman, Gere had an 8-year bender of bombs like King David.
    “And it's like King David and all these movies that just don't work.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:10:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Richard Gere → Pretty Woman. 1990 was Gere's comeback year after nearly a decade of bombs: he was the eighth choice for everything.
    “He is like the 8th choice for every movie after the other 7 people have passed.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:10:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Richard Gere → Pretty Woman. Pretty Woman is Gere's apex, and it comes the same year as Internal Affairs.
    “I mean, Pretty Woman is Richard Gears, Apex.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Richard Gere → Pretty Woman. Gere's comeback came with Internal Affairs and Pretty Woman the same year.
    “Richard Gere had 7 straight years of terrible movies and was dead and then Internal Affairs and Pretty Women completely arrived them”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:40:12 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Richard Gere → Tom Cruise. Leading men like Cruise would not cede sexual power to a Lothario co-star the way Garcia and Baldwin do here.
    “Cruz isn't signing up for this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:14:26 · Van Lathan (0.35 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Harrison Ford → Richard Gere. Like Gere in Pretty Woman, the rich rom-com guy's clothes have to work and fit.
    “Richard Gere and Pretty Woman also, great clothes.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:09:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Richard Gere → Training Day. Peck's power-move needling about the wife echoes Alonzo's needling of Jake in Training Day.
    “You know how, like, in training day, like, when Alonso asked, what's Ethan?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:32:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Richard Gere → Bruce Willis. Leading men of the era did not play bad guys, unlike Gere here; Willis and Costner barely did.
    “Costner played 0 bad guys other than No Way Out, if you count that as a bad guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:32:31 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Richard Gere → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Gere's taco-stand scene wins a new award named for Rick Dalton for the best acting.
    “Rick Dalton Award for the best acting I've ever seen in my life and it's Richard Gere in this scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:31:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (4)

  1. what-if (what-if): Don Johnson → Richard Gere. Don Johnson is nearly as good a fit; he and Gere were in the same corner for a while.
    “Yeah, and gear were in the same kind of corner for a while there.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:09:40 · Van Lathan (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Richard Gere → Ryan Gosling. Gosling is the one current actor who could be a Peck if he wanted.
    “Gosling, if Gosling wanted to be, Gosling could be.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:33:48 · Van Lathan (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Misery → Richard Gere. Goldman wrote that Richard Gere was perfect for Sheldon but was so dead nobody mentioned him.
    “Richard Gere.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:39:41 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Richard Gere → Tombstone. Per Russell, Gere nearly played Wyatt Earp.
    “Kurt Russell said the film was nearly cast with Richard Gere as Wyatt Earp”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:41:26 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Richard Gere: Gere's best performance, with An Officer and a Gentleman; he is shown as a villain who is still charismatic enough to root for.
    “I think this is his best performance in a movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:09:09 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Richard Gere: The taco-stand scene wins the new Rick Dalton Award for best acting; the line is 'I'm married, you're married, we're married.'
    “I would like to introduce a new award to the rewatchables.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:31:33 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Richard Gere: His technique: he gets very close and holds eye contact; Garcia keeps looking away in the scene.
    “Gear does this move and he does it in other movies where he gets super close to who he's talking to, male or female and he keeps the eye contact all the time.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:32:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Richard Gere: Van's mother and grandmother loved Richard Gere.
    “My mama loved Richard Gere.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:54:16 · Van Lathan (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Richard Gere: He might be the apex of hot bad guy, and the hosts wished he had played more villains.
    “And I think gear might be the apex of like hot bad guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:32:10 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)