Having brought him to this blog not so long ago, one might think that little surprise could be expected from this actor, not having given him much room for news. But one never ceases to be surprised, this is so.
Let’s review a little the life and work of this man:
He was already an established and mature actor in The two faces of the truth (1996) when he shared a cast with a still young Edward Norton, and we add that Gere is one of those actors who has managed to never become “out of style”; he didn’t have a boom to then fall into oblivion and then, hopefully, resurface with more or less glory. No, that is not the case: Richard Gere has always been Richard Gere: the elegance, the discretion, the gentleman.
Richard Gere en Pretty Woman (1990)
It may seem easy, because we are already a little far away and our memory is regular, but let’s not forget that even Sean Connery had a very low moment in his career, when he was “too old” to be James Bond but was too typecast to be anything else. Gere did not go there.
Initiated in cinema in the ’70s, having even had a small episode in Kojakit was probably his role in American Gigolo the one that put him on the right track, and when he played Zack Mayo in officer and gentleman (1980) the thing was confirmed: a star was born.
Cotton Club, Pretty Woman, o the first knight, where he played a magnificent Lancelot, were some of the great titles that he added in the following years and, although I would almost say that runaway bride y Dr. T. and the women they almost drag him into that void in which the actors begin to go over to the side of the forgotten, he arrived Chicago in 2002 and Gere made it clear he wasn’t going anywhere.
Perhaps one of the last blockbusters for which we remember him is Hachiko (Always by your side): a wonderful adaptation of the story of the bond between a university professor and his dog, one of those that you can’t remember without being moved. That was already in 2009, and the trickle since then has been incessant although more discreet, as someone born in the first half of the last century deserves, I say. And it is that, in case you wonder, the actor has completed 73 laps around the sun this summer.
In fact, he practically celebrated it in Spain, since in August he accompanied his wife, the publicist Alejandra Silva (with whom he has been married for four years) to collect an award at the Starlite gala for her charitable work.
His latest film has just been released (it was initially expected for 2022, but it was delayed until January 27th): Maybe I Do (Perhaps forever, in Spanish), which is a kind of Her parents, where a young couple (Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey) meet their parents to tell them that they plan to get married, and there is a difference of opinion between the future in-laws about it. Who are the parents? Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Diane Keaton, and William H. Macy. It seems impossible, but despite its cast it is not having a very good reception.
These days, a stolen photo of the actor has been leaked through networks that causes a real furor and that is, if it were not for those sunglasses that cover his characteristic gaze, the actor is still as recognizable as he was at 30, even with long hair.
Time has no favourites.
No rich, famous, powerful or poor.
For the time, everyone must pay you every day.
Believe it or not, it’s Richard Gere at 73 years old. pic.twitter.com/JvKLVHoxe2
— Marianno Ramoretti (@MariannoR_00) January 25, 2023
We also know that his last completed work (Longingo I long in Spanish) is in post-production, although there is still no release date: a drama about “a bachelor in his sixties who discovers that an ex-girlfriend had a child of his twenty years ago, and that the child died.” An adaptation of Ga’aguafrom director and writer Savi Gabizon.
