With roles in films such as an officer and gentleman, Pretty Woman and a man for certain hours, Richard Gere was one of the greatest Hollywood stars in the 80s and 90s. The actor has been in the last ten to 15 years Practically only in smaller strips or independent productions to be seen.
A few years ago, Gere spoke about the alleged reason that Hollywood has left him left: it probably depends on the actor’s attitude China together.
Richard Gere said critically towards China and has been ignored by Hollywood since then
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the Star 2017 explained that he was probably due to Critical statements against China is excluded from larger Hollywood productions:
There are definitely films in which I cannot play because the Chinese would say: ‘Not with him’. I recently had an incident in which someone said he couldn’t finance a film with me because the Chinese would annoy it.
These developments go back to an incident at the 1993 Oscar Awards. Here Gere publicly criticized the Chinese line -up of Tibets and the “The horrific situation of the human rights there”. The actor is a well -known friend of the Dalai Lama and called to 2008 Boycott of the Summer Olympics in Beijing on.
Since the large film market in China is often crucial for the pick-up result of Hollywood blockbusters, industrial Gere is said to have largely excluded. In the Hollywood Reporter interview, he told a story with a Chinese director who wanted to make an indie film outside the studio system with the star:
I wanted to do something with a Chinese director and two weeks before shooting he called and said: ‘I’m sorry, I can’t.’ We secretly phoneed over a protected management. If I had worked with this director, would never have been allowed to leave the country again And he could never have worked again. In the past few years Richard Gere preferred to play in smaller films
In an interview with the industry magazine, the 75-year-old said that the big studio blockbusters would no longer be interested in him anyway:
I am not interested in playing the stunted Jedi in your blockbuster. I have been so successful in the past three decades that I can afford it now, this [kleineren Filme] close.
In the meantime, Gere only plays in films in which the roles really interest him. He last stood in front of the camera for Paul Schrader in Oh Canada. At that time he had already shot a man for certain hours of Aka American Gigolo.
Schrader’s latest film, in which Gere is dying as a documentary filmmaker in older age and remembers his young years, unfortunately has no German theatrical release.
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