Richard Gere was as soon as simply an actor, standing in entrance of Julia Roberts, figuring out she’d be a star.
The Fairly Girl alum, who labored with the long run Oscar winner on each the 1990 rom-com and 1999’s Runaway Bride not too long ago shared the primary impression he had of his costar.
“After I met her the primary time, she simply glowed,” he recalled to E! Information whereas on the Cannes Movie Pageant Could 21. “She hadn’t develop into, Julia Roberts. She was simply this pleasant particular person.”
He famous of her starpower, “It was unmistakable.”
And Richard is not the one one who was charmed by their meet-cute.
In any case, Julia recalled her first impression of the 74-year-old—which got here when she and the movie’s director, the late Garry Marshall, flew to New York to persuade him to affix the forged.
“I am like, ‘Mother, I am flying to New York with Garry Marshall,’ we’re gonna see Richard Gere,'” she gushed to SiriusXM in 2017. “We go to his house and we talked and he was very good.”
